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.

Number of slavers sailing from Liverpool 1709-1804