John Hendry Anderson

John Hendry Anderson (May 1854 – 11 November 1913), was a rector in the Church of England, a schoolmaster, and Mayor of Wandsworth. He was instrumental in creating Tooting Bathing-Lake in London.

He was born in Old Machar, a parish and district of Aberdeen, the son of Rev. William Anderson and Tooting Bathing-Lake (1906). He died in Tooting in 1913, where there is a memorial to him in Holy Trinity church, Tooting.

His son, Maxwell Hendry Anderson, was a naval barrister who became Chief Justice of Fiji and Chief Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific.

Legacy Anderson House, Fountain Road, Tooting, London, is named after him. These two storey council flats were built in 1932 as part of the Council's slum clearance programme in Tooting.