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William Henderson
Monifieth/Dundee
William Henderson was a clubmaker with a workshop on Dalhousie Street, Monfieth.

A member of the wondrously litigious Henderson family he relinquished the Monifieth business when he joined the family firm in Dundee as both a clubmaker and a gunmaker.

The business first started advertising in 1893 and he was still active as a clubmaker in Monifieth in July 1898 when his little girl was tragically knocked down and killed by a baker’s van.

The following year, the business gone and presumablly working iwith the rest of the family in Dundee, he was being sued by Charles L Millar of Glasgow over the quality of re-made gutta balls he had sold to the Glasgow firm (which, as its own entry shows had history here). The sheriff in his judgement made some legal points about express versus implied warranty and breach of contract but essentially the return had been made by an American dealer who claimed a client had demolished four of the balls on one tee. He might have believed it if reported under oath from a long-hitter in Carnoustie or St Andrews but, from an American, the customer was likely to be a Yankee humourist who had studied Washington Irving and Mark Twain. Case dismissed.

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