In January 1946 Henderson had been appointed Director of the Microbiological Research Department by the Minister of Supply and an advisory panel had been assembled under the chairmanship of Maurice Hankey.
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Hankey’s biographer Stephen Roskill suggested that Henderson’s contribution to the introduction of convoys (in particular to Hankey's memorandum of February 1917) was not acknowledged on paper at the time in order to avoid imperilling the younger officer’s career.