John Henderson

(1747-1785)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Henderson, John, 1747-1785 DNB: Henderson, John (bap. 1747, d. 1785), actor LBT ID: JoHende1785 VIAF ID: 22003351 LOC ID: nr92007737	B/BAP: 1747-03-08 DIED: 1785-11-25
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English actor called the “Bath Roscius” who excelled in Shakespearean roles.
REFERENCES TO John Henderson: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 19 August 1801 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 8 March 1804 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 5 Francis Hodgson to Henry Drury, [1813] in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sir Walter Scott to Lord Montagu of Boughton, 24 May 1822 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey, “Memoir: School Recollections,” 10 January 1823 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 6 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1814 Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 29 September 1835 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 7 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VIII 1822 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: X Ch. VIII. 1801 Ch. X. 1804 Ch. XXXVI. 1834-1836 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 9 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XII. 1812-13.