John Proctor Anderdon
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John Proctor Anderdon (1760–1846) was an English merchant, banker, slave-owner, and art collector. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1811.[1][2]
He was the son of Ferdinando Anderdon and his wife Mary Hobart, and grandson of Dr. John Anderdon of Bridgwater, Somerset and his wife Mary Proctor.[3] He became a merchant in London, and a partner with William Manning in Manning & Anderdon, in 1794.[1] He brought into that partnership Charles Bosanquet, with whom he was already in business. Bosanquet left in 1810.[4] Anderdon retired in 1816.[1]
Anderdon owned Henlade Hall in Somerset from 1805,[5] and Beech House in Hampshire from 1816.[6] In the 1812 general election, he stood for the two-member Totnes constituency with George Francis Seymour in a sharp contest; but they were kept out by Thomas Peregrine Courtenay and Ayshford Wise.[7] In Hampshire he was a philanthropist, helping to build school rooms.[8]
During the 1830s Anderdon was an occupant of Farley Hall, Swallowfield.[9] In the wake of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, he was paid compensation for the enslaved people on his Seaforths estate in Antigua.[1]
