HENDERSON, J. Scott. b. Berwickshire 1838; a banker at Paisley; edited the Ayr Observer some years, the Times and Mirror at Bristol, the Edinburgh Courant 1867–72 and the Bullionist in London; translated H. C. L. Von Sybel’s Clerical policy in the nineteenth century 1875. d. Oaklands, St. Mark’s road, Notting hill, London 18 Sep. 1883.
HENDERSON, John (son of John Henderson, gardener at Brechin castle). b. Brechin 14 June 1804; carpenter Brechin; architect Edinburgh making a special study of gothic; designed and built many episcopal and other churches in Scotland 1831–65; Trinity college, Glenalmond, Perth with its decorated chapel is his best work 1847. d. 7 Greenhill park, Edinburgh 27 June 1865. Dictionary of Architecture, iv, 43.
HENDERSON, John (son of Robert Henderson, merchant and shipowner). b. Borrowstounness, Linlithgowshire 1780; drysalter Glasgow; East India merchant London; gave from £30,000 to £40,000 a year to religious and charitable schemes; maintained several religious newspapers; spent £4000 in sending copy of a publication to all railway servants to tell them of the sinfulness of Sunday labour; stopped for sometime Sunday railway travelling in Scotland; maintained mission churches in Glasgow; a founder of Evangelical Alliance 1845. d. Park Inchinnan, Renfrewshire 1 May 1867. Glasgow Daily Herald 2 May 1867 p. 2.
HENDERSON, John (son of John Henderson the actor). b. London 1822; apprenticed to Sanders the equestrian; performed as an equestrian artiste in every capital in Europe; returned to England 1862, equestrian director 1862 to death. (m. 1843 Agnes Selina Hengler). d. Ipswich 10 May 1867. bur. Highgate cemetery 3 July. Illustrated sporting news, ii, 428 (1862), portrait, iv, 641 (1865), portrait; Era 19 May 1867 p. 14 col. 3.
HENDERSON, John (brother of Charles Cooper Henderson 1803–77). b. Adelphi ter. London 1797; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; studied for the bar; spent his life in collecting works of art, which he kept at his residence 3 Montague st. Bloomsbury, London; F.S.A. 11 March 1858; left to Univ. of Oxford his Greek and Roman vases and Egyptian antiquities, to British Museum his water-colour drawings, enamels, porcelain, glass, metal work, arms and MSS., to National Gallery some water-colour drawings and paintings. d. 3 Montague st. London 20 Nov. 1878. Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 202–13; Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries, viii, 105 (1881); Academy 30 Nov. 1878 p. 531; Works of art in pottery, glass and metal in collection of J. Henderson 1868.
HENDERSON, John (son of Gilbert Henderson). b. Durham 2 May 1811; ed. Durham gram. sch.; carpet manufacturer and coal owner, Durham; M.P. Durham city 1864–74; M.P. Durham 5 Feb. 1874 but election declared void. d. Bournemouth 4 April 1884. Times 10 April 1884 p. 7.
HENDERSON, John Irving. b. Dumfriesshire 1781; in R.N.; advocate of the Scotch bar 1812; sheriff substitute of Dundee district, of Forfarshire 1832, resigned 1860. d. Blackness crescent, Dundee 24 Dec. 1860; his daughter erected schools to his memory which were opened by the Bishop of Brechin 2 Aug. 1862 but shortly afterwards finally closed. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 193; Dundee Advertiser 25 Dec. 1860 p. 3.
HENDERSON, Peter. b. Pathhead near Edinburgh 25 June 1823; apprentice to a gardener 1839; went to U.S. America 1843; greenhouse horticulturist Jersey City, and seedsman in New York, the largest business of its kind in America; author of Gardening for profit 1867, circulated 100,000 copies; Practical floriculture 1869; Gardening for pleasure 1875; Henderson’s Handbook of plants 1881; Garden and farm topics 1884; How the farm pays 1884. d. Jersey City Heights, Jany. 1890. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 164 (1887).
HENDERSON, Peter Lindsay. b. Glasgow 1831, ed. at high school there; master in the merchant service; owner and manager of a line of steamers between Copenhagen and Germany 1857; established whale fisheries in Iceland, using steamships with harpoon guns; proprietor of the Greenwich and Poplar horse ferry; A.I.C.E. 7 Feb. 1871. d. Woodfield, Hendon 20 Feb. 1881. Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiv, 341–2 (1881).
HENDERSON, William (4 son of William Henderson, sheriff substitute of Caithness). b. Thurso 17 Jany. 1810; ed. at univ. of Edin., M.D. 1831; physician fever hospital, Edin. 1832; pathologist Royal infirmary, resigned 1845; made clinical studies on the heart and blood vessels 1835–7; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1838; professor of general pathology, Univ. of Edin. 1842, resigned 1869; adopted homœopathy 1845 when professor Syme, Sir John Forbes and others withdrew from associating with him, and he was expelled from the Med. Chir. Soc. of Edin. in Dec. 1851, wrote many works on homœopathy in reply to his adversaries 1845–53; author also of Letter to lord provost on charges against Queen’s college 1840; A dictionary of names of persons and places in Old and New Testaments 1869. d. 19 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 1 April 1872. Grant’s University of Edinburgh, ii, 451 (1884); British Journal of Homœopathy, xxx, 617–23 (1872).