Eugénie Henderson

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Professor
Eugénie Henderson
FBA
Born
Eugénie Jane Andrina Henderson

(1914-10-02)2 October 1914
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Died27 July 1989(1989-07-27) (aged 74)
Camden, London
, England
NationalityBritish
Spouse
George Meier
​
(m. 1941)​
ChildrenFive
Academic background
University College, London
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics
Sub-discipline
Institutions

Eugénie Jane Andrina Henderson

Professor of Phonetics at the University of London. She served as Chair of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain from 1977 to 1980, and President of the Philological Society
from 1984 to 1988.

Early life and education

Henderson was born on 2 October 1914 at Rose Villa, Archbold Terrace,

first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.[1][2] Daniel Jones, one of her lecturers, "encouraged her to study the phonetics of south-east Asian languages".[1]

Academic career

In 1936, Henderson became an adviser on the pronunciation of names in foreign languages at the

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 1942.[2][4] The Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, to which she was assigned, spent the rest of the war teaching Japanese and other Far Eastern languages to military personnel.[1][4]

In 1946, the Department of South-East Asia and the Islands was re-established and expanded.

Emeritus Professor by the University of London.[2][5]

Outside of her university positions, Henderson held a number of positions. She was treasurer of the Philological Society from 1965 or 1966 to 1974.[1][4] She later served as its president, heading the organisation between 1984 and 1988.[2] She also served as Chair of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain from 1977 to 1980.[1]

Personal life

On 8 January 1941, Henderson married George Meier; she continued to use her

maiden name professionally.[1] Together they had five children: one daughter and four sons.[2]

On 27 July 1989, Henderson died at her home in Camden, London and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.[1]

Grave of Eugenie Henderson in Highgate Cemetery

Honours

Henderson was made an

School of Oriental and African Studies in 1985.[2] In 1986, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[1]

In 1989, a Festschrift was published in her honour. It was tiled South-East Asian Linguistics: Essays in Honour of Eugenie J.A. Henderson and was edited by Jeremy H. C. S. Davidson.[6]

Selected works

  • Henderson, Eugénie J. A. (1949). Prosodies in Siamese: A Study in Synthesis. Oxford: Taylor.
  • Henderson, Eugénie J. A. (1965). Tiddim Chin: a descriptive analysis of two texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Henderson, Eugénie J. A. (1965). The domain of phonetics: an inaugural lecture delivered on 5 May 1965. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
    ISBN 9780901877451
    .
  • Henderson, Eugénie J. A., ed. (1971). The indispensable foundation: a selection from the writings of Henry Sweet. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    ISBN 978-0194370394
    .
  • The papers and correspondence of Eugenie Henderson are held by SOAS Archives. Digitised materials from the collection can be viewed online here.

References

  1. ^
    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 26 Nov 2017
  2. ^
    Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 26 Nov 2017
  3. ^ "Eugénie Henderson". Firthian Phonology Archive. Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York. Archived from the original on 2 October 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  4. ^
    ISBN 978-0728601543
    .
  5. ^
    doi:10.1017/S0041977X00151389
    .
  6. ISBN 978-0728601543
    .
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