Henry Whitfield (1619–1688) was an English lawyer who moved to Ireland, where he was elected a member of the Irish House of Commons, and apparently had financial interests in Barbados.
[1] Baptised on 17 June 1619 at the church of St Giles Cripplegate in London[2] and recorded as age 16 in the 1634 Visitation of London,[3] he was the second son of Sir Ralph Whitfield, a landowner, MP and prominent lawyer in London,[1] and his wife Dorothy, daughter of the antiquary Sir Henry Spelman.
His elder brother was the lawyer and landowner Sir Herbert Whitfield.
[1] In 1646 at the church of St Bartholomew-the-Less in London he married Hester, daughter of William Temple.
[4] Having made his will on 26 September 1688, which was later registered in Barbados where he presumably had financial interests,[5] he died in Dublin on 26 October 1688.