Henry Anderson (1484 – 1559) was an English politician who represented

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and served once as

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, as

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four times, was elected to the

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in the Reformation Parliament in 1529, and was the first Governor of the Merchant Adventurers of

Background

Henry Anderson was the son of the

merchant John Anderson and his wife Marian Lockwood, the daughter of Thomas Lockwood of

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, Yorkshire. Thomas Lockwood had previously been

(1471–72) and

(1488–89) of

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Career

Anderson was

(1520–21),

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(by 1524) then

(1532–33, 1539–40, 1542–43, 1546–47). He was elected to represent the town in the Reformation Parliament in 1529 and may even have been elected in 1523, 1536, 1539 and 1542. During the

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, he was among the

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and

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who were praised for resisting the rebellion. During his time as

, Anderson was appointed as keeper of Newcastle's

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in 1539. Anderson also provided ships and resources for the

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and Royal Naval fleet during the

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with

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in 1543. Four years later, in 1547, he became the first Governor of the newly founded Merchant Adventurers of

. Anderson made his will in January 1559 and seems likely to have died shortly afterwards (and buried at St Nicholas's Church, Newcastle) since an inventory of his estate was made in March 1559.Archive.org – ''Wills and Inventories Illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics, etc, of the Northern Counties of England, from the Eleventh Century Downwards, Part I''
ed.

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, 2 (1835), pp. 164-8.

Family

Anderson married Anne Orde, the daughter of Robert Orde of Orde, Northumberland. They had ten children, including four sons: Bertram (1505–71), Francis, Henry and Clement. He was the founder of a political dynasty – his son, Bertram (1505–1571), grandson Henry (1545–1605) and great-grandson Sir Henry (1582–1659) were all MPs,

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and

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during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Arms

Ancestry

References

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