Charles Michael Henderson, 3rd Baron Faringdon, KCVO (born 1937) is a British peer, stockbroker and courtier. Henderson was born in 1937, the son of Oonagh Brassey (whose grandparents included the 5th Earl of Donoughmore) and Lt-Col. Hon. Michael Thomas Henderson (1906–1953), himself the son of Lt.-Col. Hon. Harold Greenwood Henderson, CVO (1875–1922), the MP for Abingdon (1910–16) and the younger son of the politician and financier

Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon (28 September 1850 – 17 March 1934), known as Sir Alexander Henderson, 1st Baronet, from 1902 to 1916, was a British financier and Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament. Biography Henderson was the ...

. The first Lord Faringdon had made a fortune during the railway booms and had sold his family stock-brokerage to Cazenove & Co. in 1932.William Kay
"Flight from the firm reluctant to change"
''The Independent'', 12 February 1995. Retrieved 8 June 2019. After

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,"Faringdon, 3rd Baron"
''Who's Who'' (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 8 June 2019. Henderson was educated at

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, graduating in 1961. In 1968, he joined Cazenove as a partner, and remained with the firm until 1996. Between 1980 and 2003, he was also chairman of Witan Investment Trust, an investment trust originally set up to manage some of the first Lord Faringdon's wealth. Henderson succeeded his uncle as

Baron Faringdon Baron Faringdon, of Buscot Park in the County of Berkshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1916 for Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon, Sir Alexander Henderson, 1st Baronet, who had previously represente ...

in 1977. He has held a number of public offices thereafter, serving as treasurer of the

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and an

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commissioner. Between 1998 and 2008, he was a

Lord-in-Waiting Lords-in-waiting (male) or baronesses-in-waiting (female) are peers who hold office in the Royal Household of the sovereign of the United Kingdom. In the official Court Circular they are styled "Lord in Waiting" or "Baroness in Waiting" (without ...

to the Queen, and since 2014 he has been

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of the

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. When he retired as Lord-in-Waiting, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the

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.
The London Gazette
', 14 June 2008 (supplement 58729), p. 3.

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Faringdon Faringdon is a historic market town in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, south-west of Oxford, north-west of Wantage and east-north-east of Swindon. Its views extend to the River Thames in the north and the highest ground visib ...