Thomas Finlayson Henderson
{{Short description|Scottish historian}}
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| birth_place = Lathones, Fife, Scotland
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1923|12|25|1844|5|25|df=y}}{{cite web|title=Henderson, T. F. (Thomas Finlayson), 1844-1923|url=http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6gq7t4s|publisher=University of Virginia|access-date=8 April 2015}}
| death_place = Wraes Farm, Renfrewshire, Scotland
| other_names = T. F. Henderson
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Thomas Finlayson Henderson (25 May 1844 – 25 December 1923), often credited as T. F. Henderson, was a Scottish historian, author and editor. Henderson was a prolific author and contributed entries on Scottish figures for the Dictionary of National Biography and Encyclopædia Britannica. He was considered an authority on poet Robert Burns and Mary, Queen of Scots.{{cite news |title=Obituary: Mr. T. F. Henderson |work=The Times |page=10 |date=28 December 1923}}
Biography
Henderson was born in Lathones, Fife, Scotland in May 1844.{{cite book|title=Who's Who|date=1907|publisher=A. & C. Black|page=820|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA820}} He was the second of 11 children born to farmer Archibald Henderson and his wife, Catherine ({{Nee|Finlayson}}), both of Kincardine-in-Menteith, a village in Perthshire.Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950.
He attended the University of St Andrews and joined the staff of the Encyclopædia Britannica. In 1914, the University of St Andrews awarded him an honorary LL.D.
He was an editor for several anthologies of poetry, including the works of Robert Burns. His work with Burns was praised by The Times, which noted, "For the first time Burns was edited with the care usually reserved for editions of the ancient classics." Henderson was also an editor of later editions of The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, considered the foremost historic work of its era, and Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.
Selected bibliography
- {{cite book|title=A Scots Garland: An Anthology of Scottish Vernacular Verse |publisher=Grant McMurray |year=1931 |location=Edinburgh }}
- {{cite book|title=Scottish Popular Poetry before Burns |publisher= Methuen & Co.|year=1913 |location=London }}
- {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/balladinliteratu00henduoft|title=The Ballad in Literature |publisher= Cambridge University Press|year= 1912|location=Cambridge }}
- {{cite book|title=Sir David Lyndsay and the later Scottish 'Makaris |year=1909 }}
- {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/auldayrshireofro00hend|title=The Auld Ayrshire of Robert Burns|publisher=G.W. Jacobs & Co |year=1907 |location= Philadelphia }}
- with Francis Watt: {{cite book|title=Scotland of To-day |publisher= Methuen & Co. |year=1907 |location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gy1WAAAAYAAJ}}{{cite journal|journal=The Athenaeum|date=September 21, 1907|issue=4169|title=Review of Scotland of To-day by T. F. Henderson|pages=325–326|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__I_PcOFSw8C&pg=PA325}} (2nd edition 1911; 3rd revised edition 1913)
- {{cite book|title='Charlie He's My Darling' and Other Burns' |publisher= Edinburgh University Press |year= 1906}}
- {{cite book|title=Mary, Queen of Scots, Her Environment and Tragedy, a biography |year=1905 |location= London }}
- {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/jamesivi00hend|title=James I and VI |publisher=Goupil & Co. |year= 1904|location=Edinburgh }}
- {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/robertburns00hendgoog|title=Robert Burns |publisher=Methuen & Co. |year=1904 |location=London}}
- {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/alittlebookscot00hendgoog|title=A Little Book of Scottish Verse|publisher= Methuen|year=1899 |location=London }}
- {{cite book|title=Scottish Vernacular Literature; a Succinct History |year= 1898 |location=Edinburgh }}
- {{cite book|title= Burns: Lesser Scottish Verse |year=1896 }}
- {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/oldworldscotland00hend|title=Old-world Scotland; Glimpses of its Modes and Manners |publisher=T.F. Unwin |year=1893 |location=London}}
- {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/casketlettersan00hendgoog|title=Casket letters and Mary Queen of Scots |publisher=A. and C. Black |year=1890 |location=Edinburgh }}
References
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External links
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Category:20th-century Scottish historians
Category:Alumni of the University of St Andrews
Category:19th-century Scottish historians
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