Hubert Henderson

Sir Hubert Douglas Henderson (20 October 1890 – 22 February 1952), was a British economist and Liberal Party politician.

[1] Henderson was Secretary of the Cotton Control Board from 1917 to 1919 and was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and University Lecturer in Economics from 1919 to 1923.

[2] Henderson served as President of the Cambridge Union in Michaelmas Term 1912.

He was a major contributor to the report of the Liberal Industrial Inquiry entitled Britain's Industrial Future, published in 1928, which advocated a large-scale programme of national development.

For the 1929 election, Henderson and John Maynard Keynes produced a pamphlet, Can Lloyd George do it?, supporting the Liberal leader's claim to be able to conquer unemployment.