Henderson Baronets
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There have been two Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Henderson, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

The Henderson Baronetcy, of Fordell in the County of Fife, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 15 July 1664 for John Henderson. The fifth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
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 for Fife
Fife (UK Parliament constituency)
Fife was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 1885, when it was divided into East Fife and West Fife....

, Kirkcaldy Burghs
Kirkcaldy Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)
Kirkcaldy Burghs was a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1974. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post voting system...

, Seaford
Seaford (UK Parliament constituency)
The UK parliamentary constituency of Seaford was a Cinque Port constituency, similar to a parliamentary borough, in Seaford, East Sussex. A rotten borough, prone by size to undue influence by a patron, it was disenfranchised in the Reform Act of 1832...

 and Stirling Burghs
Stirling Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)
Stirling Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 to 1918. The constituency comprised the burghs of Stirling in Stirlingshire, Dunfermline, and Inverkeithing in Fife, Queensferry, in Linlithgowshire , and Culross, which...

. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1833.

The Henderson Baronetcy, of Buscot Park in the County of Berkshire, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 5 August 1902. For more information on this creation, see the Baron Faringdon
Baron Faringdon
Baron Faringdon, of Buscot Park in the County of Berkshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1916 for Sir Alexander Henderson, 1st Baronet, who had previously represented Stafford West and St George's, Hanover Square in the House of Commons as a Liberal Unionist....

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Henderson Baronets, of Fordell (1664)

  • Sir John Henderson, 1st Baronet (d. 1683)
  • Sir William Henderson, 2nd Baronet (d. 1709)
  • Sir John Henderson, 3rd Baronet (1686-c. 1730)
  • Sir Robert Henderson, 4th Baronet (d. 1781)
  • Sir John Henderson, 5th Baronet (1762-1817)
  • Sir Robert Bruce Henderson, 6th Baronet (c. 1763-1833)
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