John Anderson

1840-1910

Vol IV

Pg 384

b.1840 d.10 October 1910

MB BS Manch(1861) MD St And MRCS LSA FRCP(1896)

This biography is part of a series of historical obituaries, originally published in print. As products of their time periods, some biographies contain language which is inappropriate and offensive and present biased accounts of physicians’ lives and work that do not disclose unethical and discriminatory behaviour. As an establishment organisation, the RCP, its members, and the way they are written about, have often reflected societal power structures that favour dominant groups. We aim to redress these biases through ongoing work.

Below is the biography as originally published in 1955.

John Anderson, son of Robert Anderson, received his medical education at the Manchester Royal Infirmary School of Medicine. After qualifying in 1861 and acting as house surgeon and house physician in the Royal Infirmary, he entered the army as an assistant surgeon in 1864. He first served for many years with the Royal Artillery in India, and was then stationed at Edinburgh and Camberley. He returned to India in 1880 as a member of the Marquis of Ripon’s personal staff and received the C.I.E. for his services. He retired from the army, with the rank of brigade-surgeon, in 1885, and thereafter practised in London, holding for some years the appointments of physician to the Seamen’s Hospital, Greenwich, and lecturer on diseases of tropical climates at St. Mary’s Hospital. Anderson married in 1877 Jessie Usher, daughter of J. U. Dunlop, and had two sons and two daughters. He died in North Kensington.

G H Brown

[Lancet, 1910; Roll of Army Medical Service, 6139]

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