HENDERSON, GEORGE FRANCIS ROBERT (1854 1903), British soldier and military writer, was born in Jersey in 1854. He entered the army in 1878, and served in the Egyptian campaign of 1882. In garrison at Gibraltar, in Bermuda and in Nova Scotia, he studied military art and history in spite of the difficulties of research, and in 1889 appeared (anonymously) his first work, The Campaign of Fredericksburg. In the same year he became instructor in tactics, military law and administration at Sandhurst. From this post he proceeded as professor of mili tary art and history to the staff college (1892-99), and there ex ercised a profound influence on•the younger generation of officers. His study on Spicheren had been begun some years before, and in 1898 appeared, as the result of eight years' work, his master piece, Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War. In the South African War Lieutenant-Colonel Henderson served on the staff of Lord Roberts as director of intelligence. He was to have written the official history of the war, but failing health obliged him to go to Egypt, where he died at Aswan on March 5, 1903.
Various lectures and papers by Henderson were collected and published in 1905 by Captain Malcolm, D.S.O., under the title The Science of War; to this collection a memoir was contributed by Lord Roberts. See also Journal of the Royal United Service Institu tion, vol. xlvii. No. 302.