Alexander Henderson

(1791-1832)

LBT ID: AlHende1832	B/BAP: 1791-02-23 DIED: 1832-03
SOURCES: Notes and Queries (1 October 1870) 286-87; Stanley Jones, Hazlitt: a Life (1989) 293
A corrupt officer of the Edinburgh Post Office, he supplied information to Archibald Constable and William Blackwood before being dismissed in 1822. He was an acquaintance and betrayer of William Hazlitt.
REFERENCES TO Alexander Henderson: William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. VI 1822 Found 3: ¶ 3 ¶ 6 ¶ 9