Peter Maltitz Anderson (30 September 1879,

Heilbron Heilbron is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa which services the cattle, dairy, sorghum, sunflower and maize industries. Raw stock beneficiation occurs in leisure foods, dairy products and stock feeds. It also se ...

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– 5 November 1954 ) was a South African mining engineer. He was president of the South African Chamber of Mines in 1925, 1930, 1933, 1937 and 1940/1.

Union Corporation

He was managing director of the

Union Corporation Union Corporation Limited was a South African mining house. It was founded as the A Goerz & Co Ltd in the late 1890's as a gold mining company. After World War One, it was renamed the Union Corporation. In 1980 it was merged into the General Mining ...

Ltd.

Personal life

He received an honorary Doctorate of Science in Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1930. He was married to Evelyn Elizabeth Anderson (née Gatheral) and had five children. He named the town of

Evander Evander is a masculine given name. It is an anglicization of the Greek name Εὔανδρος (lit. "good man", Latinized ''Evandrus''). It has also been adopted as an anglicization of the Gaelic name Iomhar (the Gaelic variant of the name Ivor ...

after her. Anderson died in

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References

1879 births 1954 deaths People from Heilbron South African mining engineers 20th-century South African engineers {{SouthAfrica-bio-stub