• Son of William Henderson, soap manufacturer and guild burgess, Aberdeen.
• 1824 –  Education: M.A., Marischall College
• Apprenticed to Francis Gordon.
• 1852 – Joint clerk and assessor to the Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen.
• Assistant Procurator Fiscal for Aberdeenshire.
• 1849-53 – Magistrate of Aberdeen.
• 1844 – Admitted as a Guild burgess, 7th November.
• 1868 – Died at Aberdeen, 24th November, aged 61.