A. M. Henderson

Anketell Matthew Henderson (1820 – 23 June 1876) was a Congregational minister in Australia, pastor of the Independent Church on Collins Street, Melbourne.

According to one report, Henderson's parents died while he was a child, and he was raised by an aunt, and educated at a famous school in Monaghan thanks to the generosity of a wealthy relative by the name of Anketell.

John Holmes (1787–1857), became associated with Wesleyan Methodism, of which he became a minister in June 1841,[1] ten years later joining the Independents, elsewhere known as Congregationalists, and contributed to their magazine Patriot.

[5] A month later he addressed the Collins Street congregation, formally accepting their offer, and outlined his plans for continuing church services during the rebuilding, which would commence without delay.

The 92 feet (28 m) square plan included a spacious church with a raked floor and seating for 1400 persons, and a library which doubled as a meeting room.

[9] The organ, by Hill and Son of London and installed by George Fincham, was opened by David Lee in a well-attended sacred concert on 19 September 1867.

[14] He tried to curb the publication of diverging letters and articles in the church's own newspaper, the The Victorian Independent,[15] previously regarded as an organ of opinion, his assumption of infallibility leading to characterization as a "Congregational Pope".