Surname: Henderson Forename(s): James b. 1824. Nationality: Scottish.
Poet. Born in Stirlingshire. Both parents died when Henderson was a child. Employed
at the age of twelve in a relative’s business in Glasgow. Travelled to India in 1849
and lived in Calcutta, later returning to Glasgow. Author of Glimpses of the Beautiful, in Verse (1890). Biographical information: Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry, p. 217; David Herschell Edwards (ed.), Modern Scottish Poets, thirteenth series, D. H. Edwards, 1890, pp. 369-72. (AC)