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 expressions on Henderson's part in his last days; they simply amount to laments of the disastrous issue of a policy of interference in English affairs, on which he had entered with hesitation. 

HENDERSON, ALEXANDER (1780–1863), physician, was born in Aberdeenshire in 1780, and was educated at Edinburgh University, where he graduated as a doctor of medicine on 12 Sept. 1803. His thesis ‘De modo, quo musculi, cerebrum atque nervi, respiratione afficiuntur,’ was printed in the same year in Edinburgh. He came to London and was admitted a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians on 22 Dec. 1808. He chiefly applied himself to literature, and contributed to the ‘Encyclopædia Britannica,’ the ‘Edinburgh Review,’ and other publications. He resided at 6 Curzon Street, London, but he died at Caskieben, Aberdeenshire, on 16 Sept. 1863. He was the author of:
 * 1) ‘A Sketch of the Revolutions of Medical Science, and views relating to its Reform by P. J. G. Cabanis,’ translated from the French, 1806.
 * 2) ‘An Examination of the Imposture of Ann Moore, the fasting woman of Tutbury, illustrated by Remarks on the Cases of Real and Pretended Abstinence,’ London, 1813.
 * 3) ‘The History of Ancient and Modern Wines,’ London, 1824.



HENDERSON, ANDREW (fl. 1734–1775), miscellaneous writer and bookseller, was born in Roxburghshire, where his ancestors had ‘lived for five hundred years before.’ He was educated at the universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, and wrote M.A. after his name. For some time he taught in the high school of Edinburgh, and was private tutor in the families of the Countess of Stair and others. He came to London, and printed an anonymous translation of Voltaire's ‘History of Charles XII of Sweden,’ 1734, 12mo, also 1739 and 1750. At the time of the rebellion he was in Scotland, and after he left Watts's Academy, where he was mathematical master, he published at Edinburgh ‘The History of the Rebellion, 1745 and 1746, by an impartial hand who was an Eyewitness to most of the Facts,’ 1748, 12mo; a fifth edition appeared in London in 1753. He set up as a bookseller ‘at Dean Swift's Head, Longacre,’ London, where was published his anonymous ‘Life of John, Earl of Stair,’ London, 1748, small 8vo. He attached his name to a worthless play, ‘Arsinoe, or the Incestuous Marriage, a Tragedy,’ London [1752], 8vo, which was ‘never acted, nor, indeed, ever deserved such an honour’ (Biographia Dramatica, 1812, ii. 38). His other publications were:
 * 1) ‘The History of Frederick, King of Sweden,’ London, 1752, 8vo.
 * 2) ‘Memoirs of Dr. Archibald Cameron,’ London, 1753, 8vo.
 * 3) ‘Memoirs of Field-Marshal Leopold, Count Daun, translated from a French MS.,’ London, 1757, 8vo.
 * 4) ‘Memoirs of Field Marschal James Keith,’ London, 1758, 8vo; condemned in the ‘Critical Review.’
 * 5) ‘Considerations on the Question relating to the Scots' Militia,’ London, 1760, 8vo, two editions.
 * 6) ‘The Life of William the Conqueror,’ London, 1764, sm. 8vo.
 * 7) ‘The Life of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland,’ London, 1766, 8vo; his best work.
 * 8) ‘Dissertation on the Royal Line and first Settlers of Scotland,’ London, 1771, 8vo.
 * 9) ‘Letter to the Bp. of Chester on his Sermon before the