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Major-General '''Philip Durham Henderson''', [[Companion of the Order of the Star of India|CSI]] (19 August 1840 – 19 April 1918) was a [[British Indian Army]] officer who served as the British Resident in [[Mysore State|Mysore]] from 1892 to 1895.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=22 April 1918 |title=Major-Gen. P. D. Henderson |pages=4 |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Rice |first=B. Lewis |title=Mysore: A Gazetteer Compiled for Government |publisher=Archibald Constable and Company |year=1897 |edition=Revised |volume=I: Mysore in General |location=Westminster |pages=444}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Who's Who|title=Henderson, Maj.-Gen. Philip Durham|id=197760|type=was}}</ref>

Henderson was the second son of Major-General R. Henderson, [[Royal Engineers]]. He was educated at a private school, and joined the [[2nd Madras Cavalry]] in 1857. He became an attaché in 1870 and Under-Secretary to the Foreign Department of the Government of India in 1872. He was sent to [[Kashmir|Cashmere]] on special duty in 1874 and was appointed General Superintendent of operations for the suppression of [[Thuggee]] and [[Dacoity]] in 1878. He became Resident in Mysore in 1892, and left India in 1895. He died in London in 1918.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":0" />

He was appointed a CSI for services on the staff of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) during his visit to India in 1875–1876.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

He married in 1864 Rose Cherry, second daughter of Lieutenant-General P. Cherry of the Madras Cavalry; they had two sons and two daughters.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

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