Alan Henderson | |
Full Name: | Alan Peter Henderson |
Birth Date: | 26 May 1920 |
Birth Place: | Dartford, England |
Death Place: | North Yorkshire, England |
Position: | Hooker |
Repyears1: | 1947–49 |
Repcaps1: | 9 |
Reppoints1: | 3 |
Alan Peter Henderson (26 May 1920 – 4 April 2003) was an English international rugby union player.
Born in Dartford, Kent, Henderson attended Taunton School and the University of Cambridge, gaining three blues. He was a specialist hooker. Other than varsity rugby, Henderson also played for Kent, Taunton and Richmond, as well as the Wanderers club in Edinburgh, where he was also a cricketer with Grange.[1] [2] From 1947 to 1949, Henderson was capped nine times as an England hooker, before losing his place to John Steeds.[3]