Background
He was born in Glasgow in 1835, the son of John Anderson, merchant and the nephew of architect William Burn and his wife, Eliza Macvicar.
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John Anderson
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He was educated at the Collegiate School and the University of Glasgow and then moved to London to complete his articles with his uncle.
Career
Although he designed the Sailors’ Home in Bombay in 1869, Anderson continued the exclusively country house nature of Burn’s practice but from the early 1880s accepted a wider range of commercial and ecclesiastical business, particularly from Scottish clients, notably Street Columba"s church in Pont Street, London of which he was a member, the Headquarters of the London Scottish, Christie’s Galleries, King Street, Lloyd’s Bank, Coutts Bank and the British Linen Bank whose Threadneedle Street office he designed as late as 1913. All of these were directly commissioned. He was President of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1891-1894.
He was also honorary architect to the Royal Scottish Hospital and Royal Caledonian Asylum.
He died at Stratton Street on 9 June 1915.
