Thomas Henderson (astronomer) and the Royal Company of Archers

Factual Questions
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Among the honors granted Scottish astronomer [url=]Thomas Henderson, he was Astronomer Royal for Scotland and a member of the Royal Astronomical Society. But was he ever inducted into the Royal Company of Archers (King’s/Queen’s bodyguard for Scotland)?

It’s been suggested to me that he was, but I’m having trouble tracking down a confirmation of this.

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And of course this is the link to Henderson’s Wikipedia page: Thomas Henderson (astronomer) - Wikipedia

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Here’s why I’m asking - a friend of mine has come into possession of a document which appears to be Henderson’s certificate of induction into the Guards. Here’s a photo.

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The text of the certificate reads as follows (asterisks represent unclear characters in the text):

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The way to get a definitive answer to this would be to contact whoever looks after the Company’s archives. The entry for those archives in the National Register of Archives for Scotland is coy as to who exactly holds them, but it will almost certainly be the Company itself at its headquarters in Edinburgh, Archers’ Hall. That entry also suggests that they’ll have documents from that period that are likely to record Henderson’s appointment.

Write to the NRAS at the address given in the above link asking that your enquiry be passed on to whoever holds the archives. Be extremely polite and don’t assume that they’ll necessarily help you. But you know what purports to be his exact date of appointment, so it should be easy for them to locate any relevant entries. This is doubtless the sort of simple query that they get all the time.

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History of the Royal Archers

1834…
Thomas Henderson, of Ross.

I do not think that is the SAME Thomas Henderson.

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Not sure now… Could he be called “of Ross” due to some other title ?

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Astronomer Thomas Henderson was born in Dundee, which is not Ross shire.
and according to the story,
http://www.astronomyedinburgh.org/publications/journals/38/hend.html,
it would be unlikely that he was receiving accolades at 1834, when he had returned it Edinburgh sick and he was only just getting put into the position of Regius Professor in Edinburgh University and Astronomer Royal for Scotland