Catalogue description Henderson Papers

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Details of FO 357
Reference: FO 357
Title: Henderson Papers
Description:

This series contains correspondence, entry books and miscellaneous papers of James Henderson, sometime British consul general in Colombia.
Date: 1818-1831
Related material:

See also:

for the British Consulate and legation in Columbia FO 138

for letters of the British legation in Columbia FO 854
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

James Henderson, 1783-1848
Physical description: 12 bundle(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

James Henderson was born in c.1783 somewhere in Cumberland or Westmorland. On 11th March 1819 he sailed to Rio de Janeiro, where he waited on the British representative, Henry Chamberlaine, with a letter of introduction from a "nobleman", probably Viscount Lowther. He failed to gain a public appointment but decided to remain in the country anyway for the purpose of study. He published several works on the subject.

In 1823 he was appointed as commissioner and consul general for Colombia and resident at Bogota. He resigned from these posts in 1836 and eventually settled in Madrid, dying there on 18th September 1848.

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