Frederick William Anderson

Frederick William Anderson FRSE FIB FSA (1905–1982) was a British geologist and palaeontologist. In the field of Ostracods he gives his name to the Anderson Cycles. Anderson was instantly brought into service at the outbreak of the Second World War and joined the Royal Hampshire Regiment. He was transferred in 1941 to the Zuckerman Research Team looking at the effects of aerial bomb explosions. Termed a “military geologist” he worked alongside Frederick William Shotton and John Victor Stephens. In 1943 he joined the RAF as a Lieutenant Colonel and saw action across Europe. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1947. His proposers were Talbot Whitehead, Murray Macgregor, Arthur Holmes, David Haldane and James Ernest Richey.

He returned to the British Geological Survey after the war, working with people such as James Ernest Richey and Victor Eyles. In 1953 he was promoted to Chief Palaeontologist and continued in this role until retiral in 1965.

He was married to Katharine Anderson. He died on 2 May 1982.

Publications

Geological map of the Broadoak-Brightling inlier of the Purbeck Beds. From Anderson & Bazley (1971)