Henry William Tancred QC (1781 – 20 August 1860) was an English Whig and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1832 to 1858.
Tancred was the second son of Sir Thomas Tancred, 5th Baronet and his wife Penelope Smith, daughter of Thomas Assheton Smith of Bowdon, Cheshire.
He was educated at Eton College and admitted to Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1799 and also at Lincoln's Inn on 4 May 1799.
His publications included Review of the Policy of the British Government in the Treatment of its Catholic Subjects.
[1] He also published Plato's Republic and the Greek Enlightenment Tancred died at Margate aged 78.