A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Henderson, John (d)
HENDERSON. (Lieutenant, 1822. f-p., 16; h-p., 24.)
John Henderson (d) entered the Navy, 23 Oct. 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Experiment packet, Lieut.-Commander Fegen, employed on the Falmouth station. On being appointed, early in 1809, Midshipman of the Mercurius sloop, Capt. Thos. Renwick, we find him, in the course of that year, cruizing in the North Sea and Baltic, then visiting the north coast of Spain, and finally attending the expedition to the Walcheren. From Feb. 1810 until Sept. 1815 Mr. Henderson, besides making a voyage to Rio de Janeiro and the Cape of Good Hope, served on the stations above alluded to, principally as Master’s Mate, in the Impétueux 74, Capts. John Lawford, David Milne, Chas. Inglis, and Chas. Philip Butler Bateman, and Niger 38, Capt. Peter Rainier. He was then employed for nearly two years in North America as Admiralty-Midshipman of the Pactolus 38, Capt. Wm. Hugh Dobbie, and was afterwards appointed, in a similar capacity – 10 Aug. 1817, to the Ramillies 74, Capt., Thos. Boys, on the Home station – 12 Sept. 1818, to the Severn frigate, Coast Blockade depot, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch – and, 11 Feb. 1821, to the Fury bomb, Capt. Wm. Edw. Parry, whom he accompanied in his second north-west passage explorative mission, returning with him to England in the autumn of 1823. Since that date Mr. Henderson, who had been advanced to his present rank on 26 Dec. in the preceding year, has been on half-pay.