Vice-Admiral Joseph Charles Walrond Henley, C.B., D.L., J.P. (12 September, 1879 – 9 June, 1968) was an officer in the Royal Navy.
In April of 1906, Henley was appointed to Excellent for duty in connection with the Hydraulic Manual.
On 19 August, 1907, Henley was lent to the Naval Ordnance Department to look after the work of Lieutenant Frederic C. Dreyer, who was lecturing on gunnery the nucleus crews of the Home Fleet. In 1908 he was appointed gunnery officer of Agamemnon, "to join as soon he can be spared by DNO [Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes]." He injured and admitted to Chatham Hospital on 13 August, and discharged to duty on 13 October. Some time in 1909, on relief from Agamemnon, he was appointed to President as an additional Lieutenant (G) in the Naval Ordnance Department. On 15 December he was appointed an Assistant to the D.N.O., responsible for fire control in succession to now-Commander Dreyer.
Henley was promoted to the rank of Commander on 31 December, 1910. He was reappointed as an Assistant to D.N.O., where he served until 30 December, 1911, when he was appointed to Prince of Wales as Flag Commander to the new Vice-Admiral Commanding the Atlantic Fleet, Vice-Admiral Jellicoe. He was qualified for the War Staff on 1 July, 1912, without having to pass the course at the Royal Naval War College. On 10 January, 1913, he was appointed to Queen, and on 13 June he was appointed to Egmont as Flag Commander to the Second-in-Command, Mediterranean, Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney.
On 30 April, 1914, Henley was appointed as Commander (Executive Officer) of Lord Nelson, flagship of Vice-Admiral Burney, now Vice-Admiral Commanding the Second and Third Fleets of the Home Fleets.