serving as governor of the Province of New York. Anna Robertson was painted in 1771 by Angelica Kauffman. His wife died in childbirth of their first and only child, Anne Isabella Henderson (1782-1844), who married Admiral Phillip Durham in 1818. Additional "natural children" were John Francis Wheatley Henderson, Maria Wheatley Henderson, Emilia Elizabeth Henderson, Charlotte Strickland Henderson, and Robert Strickland Henderson. Henderson was sued by his younger brother Robert Bruce Henderson (c. 1763-1833) over the ownership of Earlshall Castle; after losing the suit, Sir John refused to make up a title for his brother, forcing him to obtain one by decree of a court. Robert Bruce Henderson became the sixth and last Henderson Baronet of Fordell after Sir John's death. Artistic recognition Henderson commissioned a bust of himself in 1777 by Christopher Hewetson and a portrait by Gavin Hamilton the next year. Henderson's books and artwork seized with the Westmorland in 1778 were featured in a 2012 book and series of art exhibitions. John Brown's 1782 portrait of Henderson is in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. References External links 18th-century Scottish people 19th-century Scottish people Alumni of the University of St Andrews Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies British MPs 1774–1780 British MPs 1780–1784 British MPs 1784–1790 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1806–1807 Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1752 births 1817 deaths