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

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. He was born in Old Machar, a parish and district of

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, the son of Rev. William Anderson He gained his M.A. from Aberdeen University in 1874, becoming a

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in the

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in 1877 and was ordained priest by the bishop of Norwich in 1878. In the same year he married Alice Hornor, who was born in

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. In 1879 he was appointed assistant Master at the

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and curate of All Saints' church,

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. By 1891 he was Second Master at the Grammar School and curate of St Peter's,

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where he lived at 2, Clifton Terrace. In the same year Anderson moved back to Norfolk as Rector of

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. He was appointed rector of

Tooting Graveney Tooting is a district in South London, forming part of the London Borough of Wandsworth and partly in the London Borough of Merton. It is located south south-west of Charing Cross. History Tooting has been settled since pre- Saxon times ...

in 1897, and was elected to the LCC as an independent councillor. He was Mayor of Wandsworth in 1904–05. He was instrumental in the creation of Tooting Public Library (1902) 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

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and

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Legacy

Anderson House, Fountain Road,

Tooting Tooting is a district in South London, forming part of the London Borough of Wandsworth and partly in the London Borough of Merton. It is located south south-west of Charing Cross. History Tooting has been settled since pre- Saxon times ...

, London, is named after him. These two storey council flats were built in 1932 as part of the Council's

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programme in Tooting.

References

;Citations {{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, John Hendry 1854 births 1913 deaths Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Church of England People educated at The Portsmouth Grammar School People from Aberdeen Politics of the London Borough of Wandsworth