ANDERSON, ANDREW. A stocking weaver. Champion draught player of Scotland; author of _The Game of Draughts_ 1848, _2 ed._ 1852, 3 ed. 1878. _d._ Braidwood near Carluke, Lanarkshire 1 March 1861.
ANDERSON, ARTHUR (_eld. son of Robert Anderson of Grimaster, Shetland_). _b._ Grimaster, Feb. 1792; midshipman R.N. 1810; a merchant in London 1823; superintended naval portion of expedition to Portugal under Don Pedro 1831–32; started a line of steamers to the Peninsula 1836; formed fishery establishment in Orkney and Shetland 1838; member of Anti-corn law league formed at Manchester 18 Sep. 1838, took an active part in it; a founder of Peninsular and Oriental steam navigation company incorporated 1840; their first boat the Hindostan was started Sep. 1842; chairman of the company; chairman of Union steamship company and of Crystal palace company; M.P. for Orkney (lib.) 1 Sep. 1847 to 1 July 1852; F.S.A.; author of _Communication with India, China, &c._ 1843; _National defence_ 1852. _d._ Norwood, Surrey 28 Feb. 1868. _I.L.N. xviii_, 232 (1851), _portrait_.
ANDERSON, CHARLES ABERCROMBY. Inspector general of hospitals and fleets 12 April 1869 to death; C.B. 17 June 1871. _d._ London 25 Feb. 1872.
ANDERSON, CHRISTOPHER (_youngest son of William Anderson of Edin. ironmonger 1744–1804_). _b._ West Bow, Edin. 19 Feb. 1782; clerk in the Friendly Insurance Office 1800–1804; ordained pastor of English baptists in Edin. 21 Jany. 1808; originated the Edinburgh Bible Society Oct. 1810, the Gaelic School Society Nov. 1810; author of _The annals of the English bible, 2 vols._ 1845, _2 ed._ 1862. _d._ Edinburgh 18 Feb. 1852. _The life and letters of Christopher Anderson, by his nephew Hugh Anderson_ 1854, _portrait_.
ANDERSON, SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL (_son of John Anderson_). _b._ 1804 or 1805; admitted attorney in Bahama 1827; speaker of House of Assembly, Bahama 1831 to 1868; attorney general 1837; knighted by patent 16 Sep. 1874; chief justice 11 Oct. 1875; president of legislative council 1875; acting chief justice, Ceylon 1875–77; chief justice of Leeward islands 27 March 1877–1880. _d._ Kingston, Jamaica 1 March 1884.
ANDERSON, GEORGE FREDERICK. _b._ Carlton palace, London 1793; member of royal private band 1819, conductor 1847–48; master of the Music 1848–70; band changed by Prince Albert from a mere wind band to a full orchestra 24 Dec. 1840; treasurer of Philharmonic society, and of Royal Society of musicians. (_m._ 1820 Lucy Philpot). _d._ 34 Nottingham place, London 14 Dec. 1876. _bur._ Kensal Green 20 Dec.
ANDERSON, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM (_son of Robert Anderson of London, merchant_). _b._ London 1791; ed. at Haileybury; entered Bombay civil service 1806; senior judge of the Sudder Dewanee 1833; member of council 8 March 1838; governor of Bombay 27 April 1841 to 28 July 1842, of the Mauritius 9 Feb. 1849 to Oct. 1850, of Ceylon Oct. 1850 to Feb. 1855; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s palace 22 Feb. 1849; C.B. 22 March 1849, K.C.B. 22 Nov. 1850. (_m._ (1) 1813 Caroline 2 dau. of John Proby Kensington of Lime Grove, Putney. _m._ (2) 1833 Jane dau. of Archibald Wight of Ormiston, East Lothian). _d._ 99 Westbourne terrace, London 17 March 1857. _G. M. ii_, 493–94 (1857).
ANDERSON, SIR HENRY LACON (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Surat, East Indies 1817; ed. at St. Paul’s, at St. John’s coll. Ox. and Haileybury; entered Bombay civil service 1840; judge of Kandeish 1853; sec. to government of Bombay in political and judicial departments 1854; chief sec. to government 1860; mem. of council of India for making laws and regulations 1863–1865, when he retired; sec. to India Board in judicial, public and sanitary departments 1866; K.C.S.I. for long service in Bombay 24 May 1867. (_m._ 1841 Anne Grace 4 dau. of Hope Stewart of Ballechin, Perthshire, she _d._ 19 Feb. 1885). _d._ 46 Leinster gardens, London 7 April 1879 aged 62.
ANDERSON, REV. JAMES. _b._ Newburgh; ed. at St. Andrew’s Univ.; B.D., D.D.; author of _The Course of creation_ 1846; _Dura Den, a monograph_ 1859. _d._ Nice 16 March 1864 aged 65.
ANDERSON, SIR JAMES (_son of John Anderson of Stirling, merchant_). _b._ Stirling 1800; a manufacturer at Glasgow; lord provost 1848–49; knighted by the Queen at Glasgow 14 Aug. 1849; M.P. for Stirling (lib.) 13 July 1852 to 23 April 1859. (_m._ 1831 Janet only dau. of Robert Hood of Glasgow). _d._ Blairvadick, Dumbartonshire 8 May 1864.
ANDERSON, JAMES. _b._ Cumberland; went to Rome before 1839; became well known there as a photographer under name of Isaac Atkinson. _d._ Rome 28 Feb. 1877. _Law Reports xxi Chancery division_ 100–104 (1882).
ANDERSON, JAMES. _b._ 1797; entered navy 17 Sep. 1808; captain 1 Nov. 1849; retired admiral 21 March 1878. _d._ Teignmouth, Devon 7 March 1882 in 85 year.
ANDERSON, REV. JAMES. ed. at Univ. of Aberdeen; lived at Morpeth 1844 to death; the first moderator of Presbyterian church of England; D.D. St. Andrew’s 12 Feb. 1878. _d._ The Manse, Morpeth 17 May 1882 in 87 year.
ANDERSON, SIR JAMES CALEB, 1 Baronet (_elder son of John Anderson of Fermoy co. Cork, merchant, by his 2 wife Elizabeth only dau. of James Semple, of Waterford, she d. 3 April 1830_). _b._ Waterford 21 July 1792; created a baronet 22 March 1813 as a mark of approbation of the services rendered to Ireland by his father, who advanced the civilization of Ireland fully 50 years; improved steam locomotion. (_m._ 1815 Caroline 4 dau. of Robert Shaw of Dublin, she _d._ 1859). _d._ London 4 April 1861. _D. O. Madden’s Revelations of Ireland_ (1848) 268–85.
ANDERSON, SIR JAMES EGLINTON (_eld. son of W. Anderson of Glasgow, merchant, by a dau. of James Eglinton_). _b._ 1788; ed. Univ. of Glasgow; M.D. Edin. and Dublin; entered medical department of the navy 1808; surgeon 19 Aug. 1811; Surgeon to one of royal yachts 1827 to Nov. 1833, when he retired from the service; M.R.C.P.; Physician in ord. to Lord Lieut. of Ireland; knighted by him 1829; M.R.I.A. (_m._ 1819 Jane 3 dau. of Rev. W. Learmont of Luce Abbey, she _d._ 20 Sep. 1857). _d._ 7 Harley st. London 29 Feb. 1856.
ANDERSON, REV. JAMES STUART MURRAY. ed. at Ball. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1823; P.C. of St. George’s, Brighton 1831–51; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 1844; preacher of Lincoln’s Inn 1844–1859; R. of Tormarton, Gloucs. 1851; hon. canon of Bristol 1856; British chaplain at Bonn 1859; author of _The history of the church of England in the colonies and foreign dependencies of the British empire, 3 vols._ 1845–56, _2 ed._ 1856; _Addresses on miscellaneous subjects_ 1849, _2 ed._ 1858, and many sermons. _d._ Bonn 22 Sep. 1869. _I.L.N. xxvi_, 269 (1855) _portrait_.
ANDERSON, REV. JOHN. _b._ Craig farm, parish of Kilpatrick-Durham, Galloway 23 May 1805; ed. at Univ. of Edin; ordained a minister of church of Scotland 13 July 1836; sent out to Madras as a missionary 1836; baptised his first converts 20 June 1841; joined the Free Church at the disruption 1 July 1843; the mission was then carried on in connection with that church; established many schools both for boys and girls; published the _Native Herald_, a bimonthly periodical 2 Oct. 1841. _d._ Madras 25 March 1855. _Rev. John Braidwood’s True Yoke-fellows in the mission field_ 1862, _portrait_.
ANDERSON, JOHN. Col. 43 Madras N.I. 7 Jan. 1843 to 7 Feb. 1848; col. 37 Madras N.I. 7 Feb. 1848 to death; L.G. 23 Sep. 1857. _d._ Folkestone 22 July 1858.
ANDERSON, JOHN (_son of Wm. Anderson of Green st. London, horse dealer_). Partner with his father many years; the first man to direct attention to the value of action in horses; Anderson’s Steppers were known all over Europe; kept steppers in Green st., hacks in Bryanston st. and hunters at Mapesbury farm, Willesden lane, which is minutely described in Edmund Yates’s first novel; _Broken to harness_ 1865. _d._ Jany. 1864 aged 55. _Sporting Gazette 11 Feb. 1865_, _p._ 113.
NOTE.—His horses were sold 7–9 Feb. 1865 for sum of £20898 average £205 each horse, which exceeded in value any previous sale of horses in this country.
ANDERSON, JOHN. Col. 61 Bengal N.I. 7 July 1842 to death; General 14 Jan. 1864. _d._ Norwood, Surrey 25 April 1866 aged 84.
ANDERSON, REV. JOHN HENRY. _b._ Oakham 4 July 1841; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1862 to death. _d._ on board the “Lorraine” in latitude 28°31 S. longitude 61°46 E. in the Indian ocean 3 Jany. 1880. _Memorials of Rev. J. H. Anderson_ 1882, _portrait_.
ANDERSON, JOHN HENRY, known as Professor Anderson the Wizard of the North (_eld. child of Mr. Anderson of Aberdeen, mason_). _b._ estate of Craigmyle parish of Kincardine, Aberdeenshire 14 July 1814; call boy in Ryder’s theatrical company in Scotland 1824; first performed as a conjuror in small towns of north of Scotland 1831; performed in Waterloo rooms, Edinburgh 100 nights in 1837; erected a building called The Temple of Magic at Glasgow, seated for 2000 spectators, and performed in it 200 nights in 1838 and 1839; first appeared in London at Strand theatre 1840, when he displayed finest collection of apparatus that had ever been seen in London, performed there 4 months; converted St. James’s bazaar in St. James’s street, into a Temple of Magic 1840; performed in Ireland 1840; built theatre at Glasgow which was burnt; performed at Alexandrisky theatre, St. Petersburg, and in all chief cities of central Europe; at Covent Garden 1846, at the Strand 1848; in America 1851–53; before the Queen at Balmoral 1853; lessee of Lyceum theatre, London, Sep. 1855; of Covent Garden 24 Dec. 1855 where he produced a pantomime and the drama of Rob Roy in which he acted Rob Roy; the theatre was burnt down 5 March 1856; performed at Sadler’s Wells 1856; abroad 1856–64, at St. James’s hall, London 1864–65; went to India and Australia. _d._ Fleece hotel, Darlington 3 Feb. 1874. _bur._ St. Nicholas churchyard, Aberdeen 7 Feb. _Frost’s Lives of the conjurors_ (1876) 228–60; _The Era 8 Feb. 1874, p. 4, col. 1_; _15 Feb. p. 4, col. 3_.