Sir James Anderson
Photograph by Thomas Annan of portrait by Daniel Macnee
Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)
MonarchQueen Victoria
Personal details
Born1800
Stirling
Died1864
Blairvadach
NationalityScottish

Sir James Anderson (28 November 1800 – 8 May 1864)[1] was a British politician and manufacturer.

Born at Stirling, he was the son of the merchant John Anderson and his wife Christian Wright.[2] Aged fifteen, he moved to Glasgow to accompany his older brother David.[3] Working in a manufactury, he rose through the city's civic dignities.[3]

Anderson served as a Councillor from 1841 to 1854[4] and was appointed Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1848 and was created a Knight Bachelor on Queen Victoria's visit in the following year.[2] He held this post until 1851 and entered the British House of Commons in the next year, sitting for Stirling Burghs until 1859.[1]

In 1850 he was living at 3 Blythswood Square.[5]

He married Janet, the only daughter and heiress of Robert Hood, a fellow Bailie of Glasgow Council. The couple had three sons and a daughter.[3] Anderson died, aged 63, at his mansion in Blairvadick in Dumbartonshire.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Stirling Burghs". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. 1 2 Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 89.
  3. 1 2 3 The United Presbyterian Magazine. Vol. VIII. Edinburgh: William Oliphant and Co. 1864. p. 330.
  4. ↑ Illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibition of Portraits in the New Galleries of Art in Corporation Buildings
  5. ↑ Glasgow Post Office Directory 1850
  6. ↑ Sylvanus, Urban (1864). The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. part I. London: John Henry and James Parker. p. 813.
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