Sir Hubert Henderson died as Warden-Elect of All Souls. Chosen
last year to fill that high post, he was never well enough to be formally installed; such a happening must be rare at either university. A protégé at Cambridge of Maynard Keynes, to whom he was seven years junior, he migrated to -Oxford and became first Professor and then Head of a House (elect); Keynes remained at Cambridge, more or less, and became neither; he had, I imagine, no desire to become either. In many ways the most interesting period of Henderson's career was his _editorship of the Nation, Keynes having acquired financial control of that admirable Liberal weekly, and appointed Henderson to edit it, though he had no previous journalistic experience. He was a very different editor from his predecessor, H. W. Massingham, but with Keynes contributing from time to time articles of world-wide importance, and Henderson himself writing thoughtful and reasoned leaders, it created an influence out of all proportion to its very limited circulation. Of Henderson as an outstanding economist it must be left to someone like his friend Professor Dennis Robertson, of Cambridge, to write. Those who knew him in other capacities will remember best the always urbane earnestness with which he would argue any case that he had at heart, usually taking a line which demonstrated his refreshing independence of mind.
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