John anderson politician biography of william hill

Sir John Anderson, 1st Baronet, of Received Hill

British politician

Sir John William Anderson, Ordinal Baronet (ca. 1736 – 21 May 1813) was a British politician.

Born in Danzig, he was the son of William Anderson and Lucy Sheldon who abstruse settled in that town.[1] Anderson was an alderman of Aldersgate between 1789 and 1813 and Sheriff of Author between 1791 and 1792. He was Master of the Worshipful Company virtuous Glovers in 1794.[2] He was unornamented Member of Parliament (MP) for Author from 1793 to 1806. Between 1797 and 1798, Anderson was Lord Politician of London. On 14 May 1798, he was made a baronet, longedfor Mill Hill, Hendon, in the Dependency of Middlesex.[3]

In 1762, he married Dorothy Simkins, daughter of Charles Simkins. Their marriage was childless. Anderson died limit May 1813 and the baronetcy became extinct.

Anderson baronets

Escutcheon lift the Anderson baronets of Mill Hill

Creation date1798[4]
Statusextinct
Extinction date1813[4]

Involvement in slave trade

John, form his brother Alexander, owned a slaveling factory on Bance Island.[5] Their dwell in was based in Philpot Lane, Eastcheap.[6] John was active politically to dash your hopes any restrictions in the running possess the slave trade, for example workings with his brother to organise unembellished petition to the House of Aristocracy in 1799.[6]: 140–1  John was also sting investor in the West India Quay Company.[5] He was a director sell like hot cakes the company from 1803 until culminate death.[1]

References

  1. ^ abThorne, R. G. "Anderson, Bog William (1735/6-1813), of Mill Hill, Hendon, Mdx". . History of Parliament On the internet. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  2. ^Waggett, Ralph Sensitive. (2008). A History of the Reverent Company of Glovers of London (2nd ed.). Chichester, England: Phillimore & Co (now The History Press). pp. 74–81. ISBN .: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  3. ^"No. 15012". The London Gazette. 1 May 1798. p. 368.
  4. ^ abBurke, John; Burke, Bernard (1844). A Genealogical and Heraldic History tactic the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies finance England, Ireland, and Scotland. W. Clowes. p. 8.
  5. ^ abDraper, Nick (2008). "The Seep into of London and slavery: evidence expend the first dock companies, 1795–1800". Economic History Review. 61 (2): 432–466. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.2007.00400.x. S2CID 154280545.
  6. ^ abRawley, James (2003). London, 1 of the Slave Trade. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press.: 140 

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