Henry Smithers

7 August 1762 - 8 April 1828, Edge Hill, Lancashire) was an English shipowner based in Southwark, London.

Henry was the son of Joseph Smithers and Martha (née Keene).

[1] With Henry Keene he ran a coal merchants business in Clink Street.

[1] He was proposed for membership of the Society for Constitutional Information by Joseph Towers.

[1] Smithers was an abolitionist and expressed these sentiments in his account of Liverpool, providing statistics on the increase in the slave trade during the eighteenth century.