John Anderson (colonial administrator)
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His Excellency Sir John Anderson GCMG KCB JP |
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| Governor of Straits Settlements | |
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In office 15 April 1904 – 9 April 1911 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Arthur Henderson Young |
| Succeeded by | Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham |
| 22nd Governor of Ceylon | |
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In office 15 April 1916 – 24 March 1918 |
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| Preceded by |
Reginald Edward Stubbs acting governor |
| Succeeded by |
Reginald Edward Stubbs acting governor |
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23 June 1858 Gartly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Died | 24 March 1918 (aged 59) Colombo, Ceylon |
| Political party | None |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Sir John Anderson GCMG KCB JP (23 June 1858 – 24 March 1918) was a Scottish colonial administrator, who was once the Governor of Ceylon and Governor of Straits Settlements.
He was the only son of Mr. John Anderson, the Superintendent of the Gordon Mission, Aberdeen. Before he was twenty, he graduated MA at Aberdeen University, gaining a first class in mathematics and being awarded the gold medal of the year.
Two years after graduating, he entered the Colonial Office as a second class clerk. In 1887, he was Bacon Scholar of Gray's Inn, and in the following year he was the Inns of Court student.
He proceeded with Sir John F. Dickinson in 1891 to Gibraltar, in order to inquire into the matters connected with the Registry of the Supreme Court. He was next appointed as the private secretary to Sir R. Meade, Permanent Under-Secretary of the State for the Colonies, in 1892 he served as the British Agent for Bering Sea Arbitration.
From 1883 to 1897 he edited the Colonial Office List, later he appointed as the principal clerk. He became the secretary to the Conference between Mr. Joseph Chamberlain and the Colonial Premiers in that year he had considerable opportunities of gaining an intimate knowledge of the feelings of the self-governing colonies. For the second time he was despatched to Gibraltar in 1899, on this occasion to inquire into the rates of pay of the Civil Service there. He returned to London in the same year and remained until 1901, where Mr. Joseph Chamberlain chose him as Colonial Office representative to accompany T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales, then the Duke and Duchness of York, on their famous tour around British Empire onboard HMS Ophir. It was during that trip that Sir Anderson saw for the first time the colony over which he would preside.
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