About Andrew Henderson
Lived 1731 – 1775 (aged 43–44). Andrew Henderson was a Scottish writer, playwright, biographer, author and bookseller.
Andrew Henderson (fl. 1731 – 1775) was a Scottish writer and bookseller.
Henderson was born in Roxburghshire. Between 1731 and 1735 he attended Marischal College, Aberdeen, gaining a MA. In January 1748 he published an account of the Jacobite rising of 1745, The History of the Rebellion, 1745 and 1746. In 1766 he published The life of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, which praised the Duke. This brought him into controversy with Tobias Smollett. He also attacked William Guthrie's History of Scotland in a Dissertation on the Royal Line of Scotland (1771). He has been described as an "extremely patriotic" Scot.
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Who was Andrew Henderson?
Scottish writer and bookseller
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Andrew Henderson was born in 1731.
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Andrew Henderson died in 1775 in Roxburghshire.
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Andrew Henderson was a writer, playwright, biographer, author and bookseller.
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Andrew Henderson was Scottish.
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