G. F. R. Henderson

George Francis Robert Henderson (1854–1903) was a British Army officer and military historian. Commissioned into the York and Lancaster Regiment, he served in Egypt in 1882 and later taught at Sandhurst and as professor of military art and history at the Staff College, Camberley, where his lectures influenced a generation of officers. His Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War (1898), became a classic of military biography and was read in staff colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. He served as director of intelligence under Lord Roberts in the South African War and died at Aswan while writing its official history.