Henry Valder OBE (14 August 1862 – 12 February 1950) was a New Zealand storekeeper, sawmiller and business reformer.

[1] Valder arrived in 1881 and worked as a labourer in the King Country before joining John William Ellis as a partner in his Kihikihi store in 1884.

Valder was also a long-time district representative and vice president (1917–26) on the Dominion Federated Sawmillers' Association.

[1] In 1922, Valder promoted industrial partnership by publishing a plan to give employees shares in profits and directors on boards in a co-partnerships.

[1] These works gained him the Reconnaissance française and, in the 1948 New Year Honours, Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services in promoting industrial relations.

She went to Sonning School and St. Cuthbert's College, was a secretary[7] and, from 1930 to 1963, developed a farm from bush below Mt Pirongia[7] with her sister Mollie.

[9] Henry Valder planted many native trees in the grounds of his Hamilton riverside home, Edingthorpe.