Thomas William Heney

Thomas William Heney (3 November 1862 – 19 August 1928) was an Australian journalist and poet.

He was editor of the Western Grazier at Wilcannia in 1886 but returned to Sydney in 1889 and worked on the Echo until it ceased publication in 1893.

He retired on account of ill health in 1925, and died of heart disease at Springwood in the Blue Mountains on 19 August 1928 and was buried in the Anglican cemetery.

Heney was a modest man and a first-rate journalist, with a sense of the responsibility of his office as an editor.

His novel, The Girl at Birrell's, is a simple story of pastoral life told with some ability.