Alfred Henry Huth (1850–1910) was an English bibliophile and bibliographer. Born in London on 14 January 1850, he was the second son of the banker and book collector Henry Huth and Augusta Westenholz. After early travels in the Middle East under the guardianship of the historian Henry Thomas Buckle, he was sent to Rugby and then to Berlin University. He became a partner in the family merchant firm Frederick Huth and Co. and a director of the Alliance Assurance Company. On his father's death in 1878 he inherited the celebrated Huth Library and completed, in 1880, the catalogue his father had begun, expanding and caring for the collection for the rest of his life. His own publications include The Marriage of Near Kin (1875; second edition 1887) and The Life and Writings of Henry Thomas Buckle (two volumes, 1880), a spirited biography that also attacked Buckle's traveling companion John Stuart Stuart-Glennie. In 1892 he helped found the Bibliographical Society, serving as its first treasurer and later as its president. He died of heart failure on 14 October 1910 while shooting in Hampshire, leaving unfinished a Catalogue of the Woodcuts and Engravings in the Huth Library, which was published posthumously.
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