Eugénie Jane Andrina Henderson FBA (2 October 1914 – 27 July 1989) was a British linguist and academic, specialising in phonetics.

[1] She was the daughter of William Alexander Cruickshank Henderson, a civil engineer, and his wife Pansy Viola (née Schürer).

[1] She studied English at University College, London, graduating with first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.

[2] With the outbreak of the Second World War, she joined the civil service: she worked in the Ministry of Economic Warfare as a temporary assistant principal between 1939 and 1941.

[1] She therefore returned to academia and was appointed a lecturer in phonetics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 1942.

[2][4] The Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, to which she was assigned, spent the rest of the war teaching Japanese and other Far Eastern languages to military personnel.

[2] On 27 July 1989, Henderson died at her home in Camden, London and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.