Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Vivian Leonard Henderson MC (6 October 1884 – 3 February 1965)[1] was a British army officer and Conservative Party politician who was elected to the House of Commons three times, for three different constituencies.
Henderson was born in Liverpool, and following education at Uppingham School and the Royal Military College Sandhurst, was commissioned as an officer in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in 1904.
[5] He was knighted on 28 June 1927,[7] and was appointed in November of that year to the junior ranks of the Conservative Government, as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department.
[5] He was returned to Parliament at the 1931 general election for Chelmsford, which had been a safe Conservative seat since the collapse of the Liberals in the early 1920s.
[3] He did, however, continue his involvement in public affairs, and was appointed a deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace for the County of London, serving as chairman of the Hampstead and Lambeth Juvenile Courts.