About Sir John Anderson, 1st Baronet, of Mill Hill
Lived 1736 – 1813 (aged 76–77). Sir John Anderson, 1st Baronet, of Mill Hill was a British politician and slave trader.
Sir John William Anderson, 1st Baronet (ca. 173621 May 1813) was a British politician.
Born in Danzig, he was the son of William Anderson and Lucy Sheldon who had settled in that town. Anderson was an alderman of Aldersgate between 1789 and 1813 and Sheriff of London between 1791 and 1792. He was Master of the Worshipful Company of Glovers in 1794. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for London from 1793 to 1806. Between 1797 and 1798, Anderson was Lord Mayor of London. On 14 May 1798, he was made a baronet, of Mill Hill, Hendon, in the County of Middlesex.
In 1762, he married Dorothy Simkins, daughter of Charles Simkins. Their marriage was childless. Anderson died in May 1813 and the baronetcy became extinct.
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Sir John Anderson, 1st Baronet, of Mill Hill died on 21 May 1813.
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