P. A. (Patrick Arkley) Wright Henderson

Born in Stirling in 1841, Patrick Arkley Wright Henderson later became known as Patrick Arkley Wright-Henderson. He was educated at Oxford and went on to spend much of his career at Wadham College, where he served first as a Fellow and later, from 1903, as Warden.

Alongside his academic and clerical life, he wrote historical and literary works. The best known is The Life and Times of John Wilkins (1910), a short biography of the seventeenth-century Warden of Wadham, and he also edited Letters hitherto unpublished, a collection connected with Sir Walter Scott’s family. His writing suggests a readerly, reflective author with a strong interest in Oxford, history, and biography.

He lived for many years in Headington, near Oxford, and died on January 7, 1922. Although detailed personal information is limited in the sources available, the record that survives shows a figure closely tied to Wadham College whose books preserve his affection for scholarship and the past.