David Murray Anderson

Admiral Sir David Murray Anderson KCB, KCMG, MVO, KStJ was a British naval officer and governor. Anderson served in the Royal Navy from the age ofand served in many Colonial wars and was given various Empire postings, rising to the rank of Admiral in 1931. He retired a year later and took up the posting as Governor of Newfoundland, where he also took up the role of Chairman of the Government following the suspension of selfgovernment in the Dominion of Newfoundland. Leaving Newfoundland in 1935, he was appointed as Governor of New South Wales but served only briefly due to his ill health. He died while in office aged 62.

Anderson was born onApril 1874, the second son of General David Anderson, ColonelinChief of the Cheshire Regiment, and his wife Charlotte Christina, ne Anderson in NewtonbyChester in Cheshire, England. His elder brother was Lieutenant General Sir Warren Hastings Anderson. In 1887, as a 13yearold, he became a cadet at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. Seeing action against King Koko slave traders on the Niger River, he became a lieutenant onFebruary 1895 at age 20. Anderson saw further action against WestAfrican rebels and in the Ashanti Campaign. In May 1902, he was posted as First and gunnery lieutenant to the cruiser HMS160Brilliant on the Channel Squadron.

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