| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Berners | |
| Birth Name: | Henry Wilson |
| Death Place: | Kirby Cane, Norfolk |
| Alma Mater: | Emmanuel College, Cambridge |
| Parents: | Henry William Wilson Mary Miller |
| Relations: | Harriet Tyrwhitt, 12th Baroness Berners (granddaughter) |
Henry Wilson, 10th Baron Berners (1 October 1762 – 26 February 1851) was an English reverend and peer.
Wilson was born on 1 October 1762. He was the son of Mary (Miller) Wilson and Henry William Wilson (1728–1796) of Didlington Hall and Ashwellthorpe Hall. Among his siblings were elder brother, Robert Wilson, 9th Baron Berners, and sister, Mary Wilson (the wife of Col. George Crump, of Allexton Hall). His younger brother, Rev. George Wilson, was the father of Sir Archdale Wilson, 1st Baronet.
His paternal grandparents were Henry Wilson and Elizabeth (Knyvett) Wilson. His maternal grandparents were Sir John Miller, 4th Baronet, and the former Susan Combe (a daughter of Dr. Matthew Combe of Winchester).
He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, graduating with a B.A. in 1785 and a M.A. in 1789.G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, pps. 156–158.
From 1789 to 1845, he served as Rector of Allexton, Leicestershire, as well as Rector at Kirby Cane, Norfolk, between 1820 and 1851.
Upon the death of his elder brother on 25 March 1838, he succeeded as the 10th Baron Berners.Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999, volume 1, page 162. His portrait was painted in 1841 by Robert Scott Tait. Today, it is owned by the National Trust and held at Sheringham Park.[1]
On 1 May 1788 Wilson married Elizabeth Sumpter (–1845), daughter of Thomas Sumpter of Histon Hall, Cambridgeshire.[2] Together, they were the parents of:[3] they built Sheringham Hall.[3]
Lady Berners died on 15 December 1845 at Kirby Cane, Norfolk. Lord Berners died on 26 February 1851, also at Kirby Cane and was succeeded by his eldest son, Henry.