Jean Henderson

Jean Mary Henderson (18 December 1899 – 1 April 1997) was a British barrister and Liberal Party politician. Date of birth According to The Times newspaper obituary of Jean Henderson, she was born on 18 December 1899, but the records of the London School of Economics and Political Science where her papers are kept, note the year of Henderson's birth as 1900. Family Henderson was the daughter of John and Florence Henderson. Her father was Secretary of the National Liberal Club for twenty years and formerly worked in the Liberal Party publications department. Her mother taught scripture at Hall School, Weybridge. In religion her mother was a Quaker and her father a lapsed Presbyterian. She had one sister. She never married. Education Henderson started her education at Hall School, which has been described as an innovative and experimental establishment. The school was run by her aunt, Eva Gilpin (later Lady Sadler, wife of Sir Michael Sadler, Master of University College, Oxford). In 1949 Henderson co-edited a book about the school called Miss Gilpin and the Hall School: A Record of Adventure and Achievement in Education (Bannisdale Press, London) and in 1988 she published another exploration of the school, A Lasting Spring: Miss Gilpin and the Hall School, Weybridge 1898–1934 (William Sessions, York). After the Hall School, Henderson went to The Mount School, York, a Quaker establishment, where she was Head Girl.