Hugh Anderson

February 10, 1890 (age 75)

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Following an education at Bishop Feild College and Edinburgh Academy, the first few years of his career was at the family business in Saint John"s, after which Anderson entered the military and rose to the rank of Captain. Anderson"s dramatization of Robert Louis Stevenson"s The Suicide Club received favourable reviews in 1929. Under the pen name of Hugh Abercrombie he wrote the musical Auld Language Syne, and in 1954 he published, under his own name, Out Without My Rubbers, the memoirs of John Murray Anderson. Anderson was made Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire. He died at his home in Queens, New New York

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Born in Saint John"s, Newfoundland, Anderson was the son of politician John Anderson.

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Following an education at Bishop Feild College and Edinburgh Academy, the first few years of his career was at the family business in Saint John"s, after which Anderson entered the military and rose to the rank of Captain. Anderson"s dramatization of Robert Louis Stevenson"s The Suicide Club received favourable reviews in 1929. Under the pen name of Hugh Abercrombie he wrote the musical Auld Language Syne, and in 1954 he published, under his own name, Out Without My Rubbers, the memoirs of John Murray Anderson.

Anderson was made Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire. He died at his home in Queens, New New York

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