Background
J. G. C. Anderson, the son of a Scottish clergyman, was born on 6 December 1870, and was educated at Aberdeen University and Christ Church, Oxford.
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J. G. C. Anderson, the son of a Scottish clergyman, was born on 6 December 1870, and was educated at Aberdeen University and Christ Church, Oxford.
Christ Church; University of Aberdeen.
He was a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford from 1897 to 1900, during which time he carried out archaeological explorations in Asia Minor. He served successively as University Lecturer, then Reader, in Roman Epigraphy between 1919 and 1927, when (in the same year as his appointment as Reader) he became Camden Professor of Ancient History. The chair was attached to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he became a fellow.
He stepped down from the professorship and the fellowship in 1936, and died on 31 March 1952. Anderson opposed the appointment of Albert Einstein as a Student at Christ Church on nationalistic and perhaps even xenophobic (according to the Dean of Christ Church) grounds in the early 1930s.
Additionally, he was a member of the school board and Mayor of Barron, Wisconsin.