Henderson, William Hannam (1845–1931)

British admiral. He served under Edmund Fremantle in the punitive expedition against the Sultan of Vitu in East Africa (1890). He was commodore and senior officer in Jamaica during the Cuban War.

Henderson was born near Sandwich, Kent, England. A reformer of naval education, who saw the value of systematic instruction in strategy and tactics, Henderson derived his appreciation of the importance of this subject from E B Hamley's Operation of War (1867), and he received much encouragement in his efforts from Prince Louis of Battenberg.