Alan Henderson (rugby union)
| Full name | Alan Peter Henderson | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 26 May 1920 Dartford, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | 4 April 2003 (aged 82) North Yorkshire, England | ||||||||||||||||
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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. From 1947 to 1949, Henderson was capped nine times as an England hooker, before losing his place to John Steeds.