Hugh Kerr Anderson
British physiologist (1865–1928)
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Sir Hugh Kerr Anderson FRS (6 July 1865 – 2 November 1928) was a British physiologist, and educator. He was the son of James Anderson (1811–1897) and Eliza Murray, died 1890 aged 60.
Sir Hugh Kerr Anderson | |
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| Master of Gonville and Caius College | |
| In office 1912–1928 | |
| Preceded by | Ernest Stewart Roberts |
| Succeeded by | John Forbes Cameron |
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| Born | 6 July 1865 |
| Died | 2 November 1928 (aged 63) |
| Education | Harrow School |
| Alma mater | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
Educated at Harrow School, Anderson matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge at Michaelmas 1884, and graduated B.A. in 1887 (Natural Sciences Tripos; Scholar 1886–89; Part I, first Class, 1887; Part II, first Class, 1888); M.A. 1891; M.B. & B.Chir. 1891; M.D. 1898, completing his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.[1]
Anderson served as a Fellow of Caius 1897–1912, and as Master of Caius 1912–1928.[2] He was the Chairman of the Cambridge University Press in 1918. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, in 1907. A monument to him is in the Gonville and Caius College Chapel.[3]
He is buried at Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground, Cambridge.[4] His papers are held at Janus Library, Cambridge.[5]
Family
He married, in 1894, Jessie Mina Innes (d. 1946), daughter of Surgeon-General Francis William Innes CB. The couple had two children: Austin Innes (born 1897) and Mary Desiree (1902–1973), an author. Jessie, Lady Anderson, is buried with her husband, in the same grave in Cambridge.
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