Background
Henderson was born in Liverpool, and following education at Uppingham School and the Royal Military College Sandhurst, was commissioned as an officer in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in 1904.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Henderson was born in Liverpool, and following education at Uppingham School and the Royal Military College Sandhurst, was commissioned as an officer in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in 1904.
He served with the regiment in the First World War. He stood as a Coalition Conservative, and having received the "coalition coupon", he took the seat with a huge majority over the sitting Liberal Party Member of Parliament, James Dundas White, who was pushed into third place behind a candidate of the British Socialist Party. At the 1922 general election, Henderson lost his seat by a wide margin to the Labour Company-operative candidate Tom Henderson.
Henderson did not stand again in Glasgow, but fought the 1923 general election in the Liberal-held Bootle constituency on Merseyside.
He was knighted on 28 June 1927, and was appointed in November of that year to the junior ranks of the Conservative Government, as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department. However, at the 1929 general election, when the Labour Party took power for the second time, Henderson"s seat in Bootle was one of Labour"s gains.
He was returned to Parliament at the 1931 general election for Chelmsford, which had been a safe Conservative seat since the collapse of the Liberals in the early 1920s. In 1934 his health deteriorated, and he stepped down at the 1935 general election.
On his retirement from the Commons, he was offered the post of Governor of Burma, but declined on medical advice.
He did, however, continue his involvement in public affairs, and was appointed a deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace for the County of London, serving as chairman of the Hampstead and Lambeth Juvenile Courts. He died at his London home in February 1965, aged 80.
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Following the war, he was elected at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament for Glasgow Tradeston.
In 1921 he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on Fire Prevention.