HENDERSON, EBENEZER, D.D., was bom at Dunfermline, 17th Nov. 1784, and died at Mort lake in Surrey, 16th May 1858. Having devoted himself to the work of a missionary to the heathen, he set out with a view of proceeding to India by way of Denmark, direct access to the 13ritish pos sessions in India not being then permitted to any but the servants of the Company. Whilst at Copenhagen circumstances occurred which led to his relinquishing his intention of going to the East, and to his devoting himself to Bible circulation in the north of Europe. In this work he was engaged from 1803 to 1825, and in pursuance of it travelled through most of the northern countries, and through the south of Russia. In 1818 he pub lished his Travels in Iceland, 2 VO1S. Svo, and in 1826 his Biblical Researches azza' Travels in Russia, vol. 8vo, both works of deep and lasting interest. While engaged in circulating the Scriptures, he was at the same time a laborious student of their contents ; making himself familiar with the ori ginal languages and with all the helps which the scholarship of the Continent afforded to the exploration of their meaning. His well-known attainments in this department led to his being appointed in 1826 president of the Mission College connected with the London Missionary Society at IIoxton ; and in z830 he became professor of Theology and Biblical Literature in Highbnry Col lege. Declining strength obliged him to resign this office in 185o, when he retired to Mortlake. Here he officiated for some time as pastor of a small congregation at East Sheen ; but this duty, too, he was obliged to relinquish some years before his death. Besides the works above mentioned,
he published a translation of the Exposition of the Prophecies of Daniel, by M. F. Roos (` der grosse Schriftforscher voll stiller Tiefe,' as Delitzsch calls him), Edin. iSii ; The great Mystery of Godliness Incontrovertible (a dissertation on I Tim. iii. 16), Lond. 183o ; Divine Inspiration (being the con gregational lecture for 1835), Lond. 1836, 3d ed., IS52 ; The Book of Me Prophet Isaiah, translated from Me Onginal Hebrew, with a Commentary, critical, philological, and exegetical, etc., Lond. 184o ; 7he Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets translated, with a Comnzentaiy, etc., Lond. 1845 ; The Book of the Prophet yerenziah azzd Mat of Lamentations, etc., Lond. 1851 ; The Book of Me Prophet Ezekiel, etc., Lond. 1855 ; besides new editions of Buck's Theological Dictionary, and Gutbir's Syriac Lexicon, and many minor works. Dr. Henderson was a scholar of varied and exten sive attainments, especially in Oriental learning ; and his contributions to Biblical literature are among the most valuable the age has produced, especially his lectures on inspiration and his com mentaries on Isaiah and the minor prophets. He received the honorary degree of D.D. simultane ously from Amherst College, U.S., and from the university of Copenhagen, a spontaneous tribute to his learning, diligence, and worth.—W. L. A.