Sacred
to the memory of
Mrs SARAH BLACKLOCK TAYLOR
wife of JOHN IRVING HENDERSON Esquire
Advocate
Sheriff substitute of Forfarshire
at
Dundee
who died upon the 30th day of July
1835
and of his sister
Mrs ELIZABETH HENDERSON
widow of
Lieut WILLIAM HOGGAN R.N.
who died at Dundee
upon the 12th day of July 1838
JOHN IRVING HENDERSON was a native of Dumfries-shire, and was
born in 1781. In early life, while the French war was raging, he entered the
navy, and remained in it for some time. He afterwards studied for the bar, and
in 1812 he passed as an advocate; and for many years he maintained an honourable
position as a laborious and painstaking counsel. In 1852, when a vacancy
occurred at Dundee by the death of Sheriff Gillies, Sheriff L'Amy selected Mr
Henderson for the office of Sheriff Substitute for the Dundee district of the
county of Forfar ; and Mr Henderson, preferring the position of a local Judge in
an important district of the country, to the struggle and anxiety of
professional life at the bar, accepted of the appointment thus offered to him.
This office he held for the long period of twenty-eight years, and only resigned
a few weeks before his death, which took place on Dec. 24, 1860, in his 80th
year. The high respect in which he was held by the local aristocracy and the
superior portion of the middle classes was manifested by a recherche dinner
which was given him on his retirement from the active duties of Sheriff
Substitute. Mr Henderson was a widower, and left an only daughter. As a memorial
of her father, Miss Henderson erected a set of school buildings in Annfield
Road, Hawkhill, which were formally opened by the Bishop of Brechin (Dr Forbes)
on Saturday, Aug. 2, 1862. Through an unfortunate contretemps, the school was
shortly afterwards shut up, and remained in that condition for some time. It was
then exposed to public sale, but no one appeared anxious to become the
purchaser. In July 1865, however, Messrs Mitchell & Grahame bought the school
and playgrounds, which were converted into counting and private rooms in
connection with the extensive power looms known as the Baltic Linen Works.
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