George Francis Robert Henderson
Colonel George Francis Robert Henderson, CB (2 June 1854 – 5 March 1903) was a British Army officer and author best known for writing Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War (1898).[1][2]
Early life
Henderson was born in
Military service
After a few months service in India, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and returned to England, and in 1882 he went on active service to Egypt, fighting in the battles of
Later life and death
In the
But overwork and malaria broke his health, and he had to return home in January 1902,[8] being eventually selected to write the official history of the war. Failing health obliged him to go to Egypt, where he died at Assuan on 5 March 1903. He had completed the portion of the history of the South African War dealing with the events up to the commencement of hostilities, amounting to about a volume, but the War Office decided to suppress this, and the work was restarted by Sir F. Maurice.
Legacy
Various lectures and papers by Henderson were collected and published in 1905 by Captain Malcolm, D.S.O., under the title The Science of War; to this collection a memoir was contributed by Lord Roberts.
References
- Military profile
- Henderson, G. F. R., Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War, Barnes & Noble, Inc., 2006,ISBN 0-7607-7954-6.
Notes
- ^ "Obituary. Lieutenant-Colonel George Francis Robert Henderson". Annual Register for 1903. Longmans, Green, and Co. 1904. pp. 125–126.
- ^ a b Jersey, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1915
- ^ Burke, Bernard (1886). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison. p. 465. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ "HENDERSON, Col. George Francis Robert". Who's who biographies, 1901. 1901. p. 553.
- ^ Henderson, Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War, p. iv
- ^ "No. 27163". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 February 1900. p. 910.
- ^ "No. 27282". The London Gazette. 8 February 1901. p. 844.
- ^ "The War – return of troops". The Times. No. 36679. London. 31 January 1902. p. 6.
External links
- Works by or about George Francis Robert Henderson at Wikisource
- Works by George Francis Robert Henderson at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about George Francis Robert Henderson at Internet Archive
- Works by George Francis Robert Henderson at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)