Eldest son and first child of Henry Bunting Anderson, MRCS and Elizabeth Reinhardt his wife. He was born at 78 East India Road, Poplar, E on 18 May 1864. He was educated at the Stepney Grammar School and at New College, Eastbourne. He received his medical education at St Thomas's Hospital, where he was house physician and resident accoucheur. In 1889 he was surgeon to the Gould cable repair expedition's SS *Faraday*, and on his return to England was house surgeon to the Wolverhampton Eye Hospital. He afterwards settled in general practice in Southport, and was lecturer on hygiene at the Victoria Science and Art Schools. In 1896 he was appointed honorary medical officer to the Southport Infirmary, a position he held until his resignation in 1924, when he was complimented by being elected consulting surgeon, having acted as chairman of the medical board from 1916 to 1924. During the war of 1914-18 he was surgeon to the VAD hospitals in the neighbourhood of Southport and was rewarded with the MBE. Throughout his professional life he took an active part in Southport municipal affairs. He was a member of the town council for many years, became a borough magistrate in 1923 and was elected Mayor of the borough on 9 November 1924. He married in December 1893 Eleanor Annie Burrows, who survived him with one son and three daughters. He died on 2 July 1931 and was buried at Birkdale cemetery, after a service at the Mornington Road Wesleyan Church, Southport. Publications:- Case of strangulated obturator hernia in a woman aged 75. *Lpl med-chir J*. 1900, 20,271. Five cases illustrating diseases of the gall-bladder. *Ibid*. 1908, 28, 133. Three cases of intestinal obstruction. *Lancet*, 1904, 1, 1787. Notes on a series of operations for the accidents and complications of gastric ulcer. *Ibid*. 1904, 2, 585.