{{Short description|English merchant, politician and MP for Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1484–1559)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Alderman | name = Henry Anderson | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | office = MP for Newcastle-upon-Tyne | term_start = 1529 | term_end = 1529 | alongside = Sir Thomas Tempest | predecessor = unknown | successor = Sir Thomas Tempest<br>unknown {{Collapsed infobox section begin |cont=yes |Civic offices |titlestyle=border:1px dashed lightgrey;}}{{Infobox officeholder |embed=yes | office = Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne | term_start = 1546 | term_end = 1547 | predecessor = George Davell | successor = Sir Robert Brandling | term_start1 = 1542 | term_end1 = 1543 | predecessor1 = John Hilton | successor1 = Robert Brandling | term_start2 = 1539 | term_end2 = 1540 | predecessor2 = Andrew Bewick | successor2 = James Lawson | term_start3 = 1532 | term_end3 = 1533 | predecessor3 = Robert Brandling | successor3 = Thomas Horsley {{Collapsed infobox section end}}}} {{Collapsed infobox section begin |cont=yes |Honorary titles |titlestyle=border:1px dashed lightgrey;}}{{Infobox officeholder |embed=yes | office = Sheriff of Newcastle-upon-Tyne | term_start = 1520 | term_end = 1521 | predecessor = Gilbert Middleton | successor = George Davell {{Collapsed infobox section end}}}} | birth_name = Henry Anderson | birth_date = {{birth date text|c.1484}} | birth_place = Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland | death_date = {{death date and age|1559|1484}} | death_place = Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland | other_names = | alma_mater = | occupation = {{hlist | Merchant | Politician }} | party = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | parents = | spouse = Ann Orde | children = 10, including: <br>Bertram Anderson | relatives = }}
'''Henry Anderson''' (1484 – 1559) was an English politician who represented Newcastle-upon-Tyne and served once as Sheriff, as Mayor four times, was elected to the House of Commons in the Reformation Parliament in 1529, and was the first Governor of the Merchant Adventurers of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
==Background== Henry Anderson was the son of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne merchant John Anderson and his wife Marian Lockwood, the daughter of Thomas Lockwood of Richmondshire, Yorkshire. Thomas Lockwood had previously been Sheriff (1471–72) and Mayor (1488–89) of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.<ref name="HOP">[https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/anderson-henry-1484-1559 History of Parliament Online – Anderson, Henry]</ref><ref name="Visitation">[https://archive.org/details/visitationofnort00sainrich Archive.org – G.W. Marshall, ''The Visitation of Northumberland in 1615'' (1878)]</ref>
==Career== [[File:Blackfriars, Newcastle upon Tyne (3202542030).jpg|thumbnail|left|Blackfriars, Newcastle-upon-Tyne|252x252px]] Anderson was Sheriff (1520–21), Alderman (by 1524) then Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1532–33, 1539–40, 1542–43, 1546–47).<ref name="mayors">{{Cite web |url=http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/lm1600 |title=Newcastle City Council Mayors and Sheriffs 1600–1699 |access-date=2 December 2020 |archive-date=17 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100317040245/http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/lm1600 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was elected to represent the town in the Reformation Parliament in 1529 and may even have been elected in 1523, 1536, 1539 and 1542.<ref name=HOP/>
During the Pilgrimage of Grace, he was among the Newcastle Mayor and Aldermen who were praised for resisting the rebellion. During his time as Mayor, Anderson was appointed as keeper of Newcastle's Dominican Friary in 1539. Anderson also provided ships and resources for the army and Royal Naval fleet during the war with Scotland in 1543. Four years later, in 1547, he became the first Governor of the newly founded Merchant Adventurers of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.<ref name=HOP/>
Anderson made his will in January 1559 and seems likely to have died shortly afterwards (and buried at St Nicholas's Church, Newcastle) since an inventory of his estate was made in March 1559.<ref name=HOP/><ref>[https://archive.org/details/willisandinvent00woodgoog/page/n9 Archive.org – ''Wills and Inventories Illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics, etc, of the Northern Counties of England, from the Eleventh Century Downwards, Part I''], ed. James Raine, Surtees Society, 2 (1835), pp. 164-8.</ref>
==Family== thumbnail|St Nicholas's Church, Newcastle Anderson married Anne Orde, the daughter of Robert Orde of Orde, Northumberland.<ref name=HOP/> They had ten children, including four sons: Bertram (1505–71), Francis, Henry and Clement.<ref name=Visitation/>
He was the founder of a political dynasty – his son, Bertram (1505–1571), grandson Henry (1545–1605) and great-grandson Sir Henry (1582–1659) were all MPs, Mayors and Sheriffs of Newcastle-upon-Tyne during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
==Arms== {{Infobox COA wide | image = | notes = The arms of the Andersons of Newcastle-upon-Tyne<ref name=Visitation/> | crest = | escutcheon = Or, on a chevron Gules between three birds’ heads erased Sable, as many acorns slipped Argent, on a canton Sable three martlets Argent. | motto = }}
==Ancestry== {{ahnentafel | collapsed=yes |align=center | title=Ancestors of Henry Anderson (1484–1559) | boxstyle_1=background-color: #fcc; | boxstyle_2=background-color: #fb9; | boxstyle_3=background-color: #ffc; | boxstyle_4=background-color: #bfc; | boxstyle_5=background-color: #9fe; | 1= 1. '''Henry Anderson (1484–1559)''' | 2= 2. John Anderson of Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 3= 3. Marian Lockwood | 4= 4. Richard Anderson of Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 6= 6. Thomas Lockwood of Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 7= 7. (Unknown) Stephenson }}
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|en}} {{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne | before= unknown | before2= | with= Sir Thomas Tempest | years=1521–1521 | after= Sir Thomas Tempest | after2= unknown }} {{s-civic}} {{succession box |title=Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne |years=1546–1547 |before=George Davell |after= Sir Robert Brandling}} {{succession box |title=Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne |years=1542–1543 |before=John Hilton |after= Robert Brandling}} {{succession box |title=Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne |years=1539–1540 |before=Andrew Bewick |after= James Lawson}} {{succession box |title=Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne |years=1532–1533 |before=Robert Brandling |after= Thomas Horsley}} {{s-hon}} {{succession box | title=Sheriff of Newcastle-upon-Tyne | years=1520–1521 | before= Gilbert Middleton | after= George Davell }} {{s-end}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Henry}} Category:1484 births Henry Category:English MPs 1529–1536 Category:Mayors of Newcastle upon Tyne Category:Politicians from Newcastle upon Tyne Category:1559 deaths Category:16th-century English merchants