Nigel Anderson
Nigel James Moffatt Anderson,
Early life
Born in 1920 in Melbourne, Australia, Anderson was educated at Marlborough College from 1934 to 1938 and matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, in 1938, intending to follow his father and grandfather into the medical profession.[1][2][3]
Career
In 1939, some months before the outbreak of the
After the war, Anderson studied geography and anthropology and became a schoolmaster at Radley College.[1] While there, he was the commanding officer of the school's Combined Cadet Force from 1948 to 1953.[5]
In 1952, he inherited from a cousin the Hamptworth estate at Landford near Salisbury in Wiltshire and went to live there the next year.[1]
In 1953, he was first elected to
In October 1974, he was Gazetted a
In his book Battling for Peace (1999), Richard Needham, Wiltshire member of parliament and Northern Ireland minister, recalls attending a service at Westminster Abbey in 1991:
The former chairman of the county council and high sheriff for the year, Nigel Anderson, was a redoubtable old soldier who had a profound dislike of Mrs Thatcher and kept muttering "Well done, keep it up" in a loud whisper at every opportunity when there was a lull in the service.[8]
Family
Anderson met his wife, Daphne, while serving with the British Army in Northern Ireland, and they had one son, Donald.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Former High Sheriff dies at 88, Salisbury Journal website, 4 June 2008
- ^ a b Oxford University Gazette, 18 December 2008 at ox.ac.uk
- ^ a b Old Marlburian deaths at marlboroughcollege.org
- London Gazette 34629 published 26 May 1939, p. 3553
- Gale and Polden, 1965
- ^ London Gazette Issue 46372 published 14 October 1974, p. 8949
- ^ A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 12 (1983), p. xv
- ^ Richard Needham, Battling for Peace: Northern Ireland's Longest-Serving British Minister (Blackstaff Press, 1999) p. 214