Nigel Henderson

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Henderson joined the Royal Navy in 1927.[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/HENDERSON3.shtml Sir Nigel Stuart Henderson] Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives He served in the Second World War as a gunnery officer. After the war he became Naval Attaché in Rome and then, from 1951, commanded the patrol vessel {{HMS|Protector|A146|6}}.

Henderson was appointed Commanding Officer at the Royal Naval Air Station at Bramcote in 1952 and was Captain of the cruiser {{HMS|Kenya|14|6}} from 1955. He became Vice Naval Deputy and then Naval Deputy to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe in 1957 and Director General of Training at the Admiralty in 1960. In 1962 he was made Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth, and on 14 August 1963 he was promoted to the rank of admiral.{{London Gazette|issue=43115|page=7913| date=24 September 1963}} He was made Head of the British Defence Staff in Washington, D.C. and UK Military Representative to NATO in 1965 and then Chairman of the NATO Military Committee in 1968. He retired in 1971.

Writing in 1974 Henderson expressed concern over a general lack of awareness about "Western Europe and indeed of all NATO countries being dependent very largely on Middle East oil".[http://www.naval-review.org/issues/1979-3.pdf Editorial] Naval Review, Vol. 67, No.3, page 169, July 1979

Henderson married Catherine Mary Maitland in 1939. They had three children, a son and two daughters. In 1959 Lady Henderson inherited the estate of Hensol House near Castle Douglas from her godmother Helen, Marchioness of Ailsa. The couple retired there in 1971.{{cite web |title=Lady Henderson obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7947017/Lady-Henderson.html |website=The Telegraph|date=15 August 2010 }}[http://icdumfries.icnetwork.co.uk/gallowaynews/news/tm_method=full&objectid=18268061&siteid=77296-name_page.html Galloway volunteer group celebrates 21st birthday] Galloway News, 15 December 2006

In retirement Henderson spearheaded the effort to restore the Scottish birthplace of John Paul Jones at Arbigland back to its original 1747 condition.[http://www.jpj.demon.co.uk/jpjcott.htm History of John Paul Jones Cottage] John Paul Jones Cottage Museum, Scotland He was also a Deputy Lieutenant of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1992/jun/11/her-majestys-deputy-lieutenants-in Deputy Lieutenants in Scotland] Hansard, 11 June 1992 and a Patron of the Ten Tors Challenge held each year on Dartmoor.{{Cite web |url=http://events.exeter.ac.uk/tentors/challenge.htm |title=Ten Tors |access-date=7 August 2010 |archive-date=17 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110117074353/http://events.exeter.ac.uk/tentors/challenge.htm |url-status=dead }}

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