Background
Henderson was the second son of Arthur Henderson and the elder brother of Arthur Henderson, Baron Rowley.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Henderson was the second son of Arthur Henderson and the elder brother of Arthur Henderson, Baron Rowley.
He was also Head of the Press and Publicity Department of the Labour Party and served during the Second World War as Personal Assistant to the Minister without Portfolio Arthur Greenwood from 1940 to 1942. In 1945 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Henderson, of Westgate in the City and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In the 1950 Birthday Honours he was admitted to the Privy Council.
33rd United Kingdom Parliament. 35th United Kingdom Parliament]
He sat as Member of Parliament for Enfield from 1923 to 1924 and from 1929 to 1931 and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for India William Wedgwood Benn from 1929 to 1931. Henderson served in the Labour administration of Clement Attlee as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) and an additional member of the Air Council from 1945 to 1947 and as Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1948 to 1951.