Major-General Sir Henry Wheatley, 1st Baronet CB, GCH (1777 – 21 March 1852), was the Keeper of the Privy Purse for King William IV and Queen Victoria from 1830 to 1846.

of Lesney House, in the parish of Erith, Kent, where he was born in 1777, by Margaret, daughter of John Randall, esq.

He entered the 1st Battalion of Grenadier Guards in 1795[1] and served in Holland under Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, second son of George III.

He was also present at the Battle of Vimeiro in 1808, was given a company in 1809,[3] accompanied the Guards to Cadiz in 1810, and was engaged with that corps at Barrosa.

Both of these offices remained with him upon the succession of Queen Victoria until his retirement in January 1847.