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Nigel de Paiva Henderson-Scott was born in London on 9 September 1920, the only son of Major Walter Maxwell Henderson-Scott and Marjorie (née de Paiva). He was educated at Wellington College from 1934 where he was a member of the Racquets Eight, and was considered to be a good cricketer.
Nigel Henderson-Scott entered Worcester College on 7 October 1938 to read Modern History but left without taking a degree in order to enlist in the army. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Scots Guards on 8 March 1941. In April 1943 the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards were advancing on Enfidaville in Tunisia in the final drive to push the German Afrika Corps from North Africa. On 20 April 1943 Lieutenant Nigel Henderson-Scott was leading his carrier patrol close to Enfidaville when he was killed, aged 22.
Nigel Henderson-Scott is buried at Enfidaville War Cemetery in Tunisia and commemorated on the war memorials at Burley, Wellington College, and Worcester College, Oxford.