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Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson KCB (1821 - 1896)

Sir Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson KCB
Born in Hampshire, Englandmap
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Husband of — married 4 Sep 1848 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canadamap
Husband of — married 5 Aug 1857 in Higham, Kent, England, United Kingdommap
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Died at age 75 in London, Englandmap
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Biography

Sir Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson [1] (1821-1896), soldier, administrator and police commissioner, was born on 19 April 1821 at Muddiford, Hampshire, England, son of Vice-Admiral George Henderson and his wife Frances Elizabeth, née Walcott-Sympson.
Educated at Bruton, Somerset, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers and in 1839-45 served in Canada. In 1848 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, he married Mary Murphy. . . .

. . . . . In 1849 Earl Grey appointed Henderson comptroller of convicts in Western Australia and he sailed in the Scindian with seventy-five convicts, seventy pensioners and some free migrants; they arrived at Fremantle on 1 June 1850. He was instructed to 'examine and report upon the public works which can be undertaken with the most advantage . . . .

. . . . In England Henderson gave evidence on penal systems and transportation to a royal commission, sold his commission as lieutenant-colonel and accepted appointment as director of convict prisons. When Sir Joshua Jebb died in 1863, Henderson became surveyor-general of prisons and inspector-general of military prisons. In 1869 he became chief commissioner of the metropolitan police which he expanded from 9000 to 13,000. He also instituted a criminal investigation department and a police orphanage. He was made CB in 1868 and KCB in 1878. On 8 February 1886 a demonstration of unemployed in Trafalgar Square led to serious riot and much damage to public property. The failure of police to control the crowds was blamed on Henderson and he resigned. Through the Home Secretary, Hugh Childers, he was given the highest rate of pension, £1000. He was also presented with a purse of £1000 and a portrait by Edwin Long, and London cabmen gave him a silver model of a hansom cab. Henderson had a good sense of humour, wide repute as a raconteur and competence in water-colour sketching. [2]
He died on 8 December 1896 in London, survived by several daughters. . . . more . . .

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Arrival of the Scindian with Convicts. (1850, June 7). The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News (WA : 1848 - 1864), p. 2. Retrieved September 17, 2020 The number of passengers is 277, of which seven are cabin, including Dr. Gibson, R.N., Surgeon Superintendent, Capt. Henderson, R.E., Superintendent of the Convict Establishment, lady and child
TICKET-OF-LEAVE-MEN. (1851, July 18). The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News (WA : 1848 - 1864), p. 2. Retrieved September 17, 2020 E. Y. W. HENDERSON, Comptroller-General Convict Establishment, Fremantle, July 11th, 1851 }

THE LATE SIR EDMUND HENDERSON. (1897, January 21). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), p. 10. Retrieved September 16, 2020

Sources

  1. Wendy Birman, Henderson, Sir Edmund Yeamans Walcott (1821–1896), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,
    published first in hardcopy 1972, accessed online 16 September 2020.
  2. Art of : Perth, West Australia 1862 Edmund Henderson, Mudeford, Dorset, England 1821 – 1896

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