Harold Henderson

Who was Harold Henderson?

Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Harold Greenwood Henderson CVO, was a British Conservative politician.

Born in Brentford, Henderson was the eldest son of Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon of Buscot Park in Berkshire, and his wife Jane Ellen. He served in the Royal Berkshire Regiment of the British Army, and later joined the Territorial Army in the Berkshire Yeomanry. He sat as Member of Parliament for Abingdon from 1910 to 1916. Henderson resigned his seat on his appointment as military secretary to the Duke of Devonshire who was to become Governor General of Canada in November 1916.

Henderson married Lady Violet Charlotte, daughter of Robert Dalzell, 11th Earl of Carnwath, in 1901. They lived at Kitmore House at Shellingford in Berkshire. He died in November 1922, aged 47 in Faringdon, twelve years before the death of his father. He had four children and his eldest son, Alexander Gavin, succeeded in the barony in 1934.