Anderson, Adam

Dates	c.1720-1765
Location	London
Vocation	Historian
Place of Birth	Aberdeen
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Place of birth		Source	Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Born to James Anderson and Jean Campbell, Anderson was baptized on 2 May in St. Nicholas's Church. Younger brother to James Anderson, clergyman in London. He moved to London c.1720 working as a clerk in the South Sea Company, becoming chief clerk after more than 40 years of service. Anderson was a non-parliamentary trustee of the colony of Georgia and prominent member of the court of the Scottish corporation, a charity providing support for Scots in need. He was twice married. Earned reputation as a writer with publication of 'An historical and chronological deduction of the origin of commerce from the earliest accounts to the present time, containing an history of the great commercial interests of the British empire' published in 1764. He died a year later at his house in Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell, London 10 January 1765.