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Adam Anderson (b.1692)
Published a scientific study of the “Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce” in 1765, written from his experience as one of the trustees who established the colony of Georgia under the charter granted to General Oglethorpe in 1732
Anderson, James (1739–1808), agriculturist and political economist
James Anderson (1739 – 1808)
Wrote his 1785 “Account of the Present State of The Hebrides and Western Coasts of Scotland” in addition to an entry – ‘Monsoon’ – for the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica in 1773 that accurately predicted discoveries to be made by Captain Cook before his return.
John Anderson FRSE FRS FSA(Scot) (26 September 1726 – 13 January 1796) was a Scottish natural philosopher and liberal educator
John Anderson (1726 – 1796)
Professor of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow University. The Stature of his academic work is testified to by the fact that his “Institutes of Physics” went through five editions in his lifetime. He continued the connection with France that his ancestor Alexander had started in the seventeenth century, by inventing a method of diminishing the recoil in a gun that was gratefully received by the French National Convention in 1791.
The Scottish Nation by William Anderson. 1863 in three Volumes
William Anderson (b.1805)
Produced the famous biographical history of the people of Scotland, “The Scottish Nation”, in three volumes in 1863.
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Anderson, John, first Viscount Waverley (1882–1958), civil service administrator and politician,
John Anderson (1882 – 1958)
Born in Edinburgh, he was the outstanding Governor of Bengal during the critical years (1932-37) of India’s secession from the Empire. The last british statesman to hold a parliamentary status as an independent, Viscount Waverly attained cabinet office under Churchill, in addition to designing the Anderson bomb shelter.