David Ernest Henshaw MBE (20 December 1931 – 2 April 2008) was an Australian politician.
He attended Wesley College and then the University of Western Australia, where he received a Bachelor of Science (Honours).
He then moved to Geelong, where he became chief research scientist of the Textile Industry Division of CSIRO from 1958 to 1982.
In 1970 he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for the self-twist wool spinning machine he had developed, and he was joint winner of the Britannica Australia award for science in 1972.
[1] Henshaw was an executive member of the Corangamite federal electorate assembly from 1973 to 1982 and was also president and secretary of the Labor Party's Belmont branch.