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.
ANDERSON, Joseph Jocelyn. b. 1789; ensign 78 foot 27 June 1805; served in Peninsula 1809–12; lieut. col. 50 foot 1 April 1841 to 19 Sep. 1848 when he sold out; military commander and civil superintendent of convicts Norfolk Island; commanded a brigade in Gwalior campaign 1843; a squatter on the Goulburn Victoria; member of legislative council 1852; K.H. 1837, C.B. 2 May 1844. d. Fairlie house, South Yarra 18 July 1877. bur. St. Kilda cemetery 21 July. I.L.N. lxxi, 347, 348 (1877), portrait.
ANDERSON, Lucy (dau. of John Philpot of Bath). b. Bath Dec. 1790; made her début at Philharmonic Society’s concerts 1822; Pianist to Queen Adelaide 1832; Pianist to Queen Victoria 1837; gave her last concert 30 May 1862 in Her Majesty’s theatre; granted a civil list pension of £100 23 July 1840. (m. 1820 George Frederick Anderson). d. 34 Nottingham place, London 24 Dec. 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 31 Dec. I.L.N. xli, 77 (1862), portrait.
ANDERSON, Paul (2 son of James Anderson of Grace Dieu, co. Waterford, by Susanna youngest dau. of Christmas Paul). b. 29 March 1767; ensign 51 foot 31 March 1788; lieut. col. 60 foot 14 Jany. 1808 to 25 Feb. 1817 when placed on h.p.; commander of Gravesend and Tilbury forts 1 Dec. 1827, of Pendennis castle 23 July 1832; col. 78 foot 9 Feb. 1837 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June