Henry Fehr was born in Forest Hill, London. He was of Swiss origin and an ancestor was a former President of the Swiss Republic. He spent many of his formative years around East London, and living in Leyton and later South Kensington.

He studied at the City of London School, The Royal Academy and at the studios of Horace Montford and Thomas Brook.

He received encouragement from Frederic (later Lord) Leighton during his studies.

He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1887 and in 1893 created "Perseus and Andromeda" which was in 1894 selected as a permanent piece on the West Balcony of the Tate Gallery, London, having been bought for the Chatrey Bequest.

He spent 50 years exhibiting at the Royal Academy and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.

Fehr's most well known work includes Busts, War memorials, and bas reliefs.

Other well known memorial busts include:

Queen Victoria - Hull

James Watt - Leeds

John Hampden - Aylesbury

Lord Beconsfield - Aylesbury

With regard to his most famous pieces, the frieze which occupies the front of the Middlesex Guildhall (now the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom), opposite Parliament Square, London would be among them.