George Henderson

George Henderson (18 February 1866 – 26 June 1912) was a scholar of Scottish Gaelic. Life and works Henderson was born on 18 February 1866 in Heughden, Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire, in Scotland. He went to Raining's School in Inverness, where he was taught by Alexander MacBain, a lexicographer of Scottish. He then attended the University of Edinburgh, studying English literature, philosophy and Celtic under Donald MacKinnon. He would engage in fieldwork collecting Gaelic lore in South Uist in 1892. He travelled to Vienna in 1893 earning a doctorate. On his return in 1896, he studied at Jesus College, Oxford, and obtained a BLitt on Scottish Gaelic dialects. He married Ella, the daughter of Alexander Carmichael, in Iffley near Oxford in May 1901, just before his ordination as a Church of Scotland minister in June 1901. He served as a Church of Scotland minister for the parish of Eddrachillis, Sutherland.