Glencraig at number 14 Baldwin Street Ascot is a classic between the war years Brisbane home that demonstrated status and position for both the owners and the home. Still a picture today with its immaculate street presentation and the originality of the home. Glencraig was built for Neville and Jean Henderson in 1935. Neville Vicars Henderson was born on 21 March 1899 at Longreach, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. He was the son of John Cunningham Henderson and Ann Janet Macalister. He married Jean Hamilton Brownhill, daughter of David James Brownhill and Jane Love Macmillan, on 7 February 1934 at St. Phillip's Church, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was educated at Southport School, Southport, Queensland, Australia. He graduated from University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) He graduated from Trinity College, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, with a Master of Law (LL.M.) He was a practising barrister and solicitor [Victoria]. He was a practising solicitor [Queensland] in 1923. He was a partner of Henderson and Lahey, solicitors in 1924 at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He gained the rank of Major in the service of the Australian Military Forces. He was decorated with the award of the Goldenes Ehrenzeichen Order of Austria. He was invested as a Commander, Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) He was managing editor of Annotated Reprint of Queensland Statutes. He was Austrian Consul in Queensland in 1957.
Glencraig
Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Tuesday 19 March 1935, page 10
A MODERN RESIDENCE being erected in Baldwin Street, Ascot, for Mr. and Mrs. N. V. Henderson by Messrs. Baxter and Hargreaves builders, of Toowong, from designs by and under the supervision of R Ashley Shaw, F.R.A.I.A., architect, of Queen Street, Brisbane. The construction is wholly of brick, with tiled roof. On the ground floor are the entrance porch, a stair-hall, living-room, dining-room, 'den,' side veranda, kitchen, pantry, maid's room, laundry, and back porch. On the upper floor are two bedrooms, a dressing-room, sleep-out, and bathroom.
Neville Vicars Henderson
Neville Vicars Henderson's family heritage has a direct link to the very early military days of colonial New South Wales. His grandfather was Captain Lachlan Macalister of the 48th. Regiment arriving in the colony in 1817.
Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Monday 23 June 1941, page 7
Death of Mrs. J. C. Henderson
Mrs. J. C. Henderson, widow of the late Mr. John Cunningham Henderson, passed away at her residence, Brougham, Glen Road, Toowong, on Saturday night. 432 Mrs. Henderson was a daughter of the late Captain Lachlan Macalister, who arrived in Australia with the 48th Regiment in 1817 and afterwards settled in the Goulburn and Campbelltown districts of New South Wales. Mrs. Henderson was born on April 10, 1854, and had very clear recollections of the condition of life in the early days in New South Wales and Queensland, especially in the Goulburn, St. George and Cunnamulla districts. She held the Brisbane Cup raced for at Parramatta and won by her father in 1828. After leaving Yarmouth Station near Cunnamulla in 1912 Mrs. Henderson settled with her husband at Toowong, where she resided ever since. She was for many years president of the Toowong branch of the Country Women's Association and took a keen interest in the Victoria League, as well as in the activities of St. Thomas' Church, Toowong. She is survived by three sons, Messrs. Robert Henderson, Toowong, W. A. Henderson, Toowoomba, and Captain N. V. Henderson, Ascot, and one daughter, Miss M. I. Henderson, Toowong.
Neville Henderson was an active voice against death duties and taxes that were imposed upon citizens. It is intersting to note that he maintained his campaign for over 40 years.
Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Monday 3 July 1933, page 1
DEATH DUTY TAXES
One Form Advocated Solicitor's Evidence
It was stated in evidence given on behalf of the Taxpayers' Association of Queensland before the Royal Commission on Taxation to-day that the opinion was strongly held that there, should be one form of death duty taxation only and that this should be an estate duty payable on the total value of the estate as assessed, and that there should be no additional probatc duty as in Queensland on the value ot the estate passing under the grant of probate. Mr. Neville V. Henderson, of the film of Henderson and Lahey, Solicitors, with whom was Mr. F. T. Grove, barrister-at-law, appeared before the Commission on behalf of the Taxpayers' Association to give evidence on the subject of death duties. Mr. Henderson described death duties as in the nature of a capital levy and said it was important in the interests of all citizens that there should be a complete standardisation of the nature of death duties levied both by the Commonwealth and the various States. Taxation payable on the death of a citizen, said Mr. Henderson, should by limited to one form of death duty, it was harsh and inequitable that a second form of taxation also of a capital nature should be applied to estates under the guise of income tax. Death duties were sufficient to recoup the State for any loss of income tax arising through the non-realisation of assets by the testator during his lifetime and taxation should end there. Death duties divided themselves into two types-State duties (including probate duties) and succession duties. ........
Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Thursday 4 May 1972, page 15
A Queensland solicitor told the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Government Operations in Canberra yesterday that death duties had led to the "economic genocide" of a Queensland grazing family. The solicitor. Mr N. V. Henderson, said the present state of death-duty legislation in Australia "with its unjust, devious, illogical and unreasonable provisions" reflected little credit on succcssivc Commonwealth and State Parliaments. Mr Henderson, who is also the treasurer and chairman of the Taxation Committee of the Queensland branch of the Country Party, was giving evidence on behalf of the branch. He told the Senate committee, which is inquiring into death duties, that the party's policy was that death duties be progressively rcduccd with a view to their eventual abolition.
Financial hardship
Mr Henderson said that after the Queensland grazier's death, the resulting financial hardship had contributed to the death of his widow who had not even had enough money to pay for her funeral expenses. After working lor eight years without wages, her son was now "the unpaid caretaker of the mortgagees". Mr Henderson said that the payment of the death duties and the payment of compound interest to financial institutions on the "uneconomic and unproductive debts" creatcd for the purpose of paying death duties had bankrupt ed the family.
The story of this family highlighted the submissions on why death duties should be abolished, Mr Henderson said.
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