William Anderson (Victorian politician, born 1828)
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The Honourable William Anderson (3 January 1828 – 6 May 1909),[1] J.P., was a Scottish-born, colonial Victorian farmer and politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1880 to 1892 for Villiers and Heytesbury.
Anderson, the son of James Anderson and Hannah his wife, was born at Montrose, Scotland, on 3 January 1828, and was taken to Launceston, Van Diemen's Land (renamed to Tasmania in 1856), in October 1841, arriving on 1 April 1842. The family removed to Port Fairy in Victoria in 1844; and in 1849 he took over his father's business as a builder, which he managed until 1854, when he joined his father in purchasing Rosemount Farm. He became a member of the first Belfast Road Board, was elected president of the Belfast Shire Council, made a justice of the peace in 1864.[2]
