Henry Burney (27 February 1792 – 4 March 1845) or Hantri Barani (Thai: หันตรีบารนี) in Thai, was a British commercial traveller and diplomat for the British East India Company. His parents were (1768–1808), headmaster of the Orphan School at Kidderpore, and Jane Burney (1772–1842), and he was a nephew of the English writer Frances Burney (1752–1840). On 30 June 1818 at St. George's Church in George Town, Penang, Malaya, he married Janet Bannerman (1799–1865), with whom he had 13 children, eight of whom were still living at the time of his death. She was the niece of John Alexander Bannerman, who was governor of Penang in Malaya.