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CHARLES COOPER HENDERSON. 



(Born 1803. Died 1877.) 



CHARLES COOPER HENDERSON was 

 born on 14th June, 1803, at the Abbey 

 House, Chertsey, in Surrey. He was the younger 

 son of John Henderson by Georgiana Jane, only 

 child of George Keate, F.R.S., the well-known 

 man of letters and correspondent of Voltaire. Mr. 

 John Henderson was himself an amateur artist of 

 more than ordinary merit, and he engaged the 

 celebrated painter Samuel Prout to give Charles 

 and his brothers and sisters instruction in drawing. 



From the first Charles Cooper Henderson dis- 

 played considerable artistic talent ; when still at 

 school at Brighton, he made, among numerous 

 drawings, a sketch of a famous character of the 

 Brighton streets, "The Mouse-trap Man," which 

 possessed such merit that it was published. From 

 Brighton Henderson went to Winchester ; and on 

 leaving, read for the Bar with Basevi the special 

 pleader, who at the time had another pupil who was 

 destined to make a name for himself in Connop 

 Thirlwall, afterwards Bishop of St. David's. Basevi, 



