Henry Tyler (Conservative politician)

This article is about the British engineer, politician and rail inspector. For approximately contemporary American scientist, H.W. Tyler, see Harry Walter Tyler.

Henry Whatley Tyler
Born(1827-03-07)7 March 1827
Mayfair, London
Died30 January 1908(1908-01-30) (aged 80)

Sir Henry Whatley Tyler (7 March 1827 – 30 January 1908) was a pioneering British engineer and politician, who contributed to the Great Exhibition of 1851 and whose collections helped found the Science Museum in South Kensington. His interests were mainly in railways, where he served Inspector of Railways and a railway company director but also in water and iron working. He was also a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1892.