ANDERSON, Adam, a native of Scotland, was brother to the reverend James Anderson, D. D. editor of the Diplomata Scotice and Royal Genealogies, many years since minister of the Scots Presbyterian church in
Anderson. in Swallow-street, Piccadilly, and well known in those
Andes. days among the people of that persuasion resident in London by the name of Bishop Anderson, a learned but imprudent man, who lost a considerable part of his property in the fatal year 1720. He married, and had issue a son, and a daughter who was the wife of an officer in the army.
Adam Anderson was for 40 years a clerk in the South Sea House; and at length arrived at his acmé there, being appointed chief clerk of the Stock and New Annuities, which office he retained till his death. He was appointed one of the trustees for establishing the colony of Georgia in America; and was also one of the court of assistants of the Scots corporation in London. The time of the publication of his "Historical and Chronological Deduction of Trade and Commerce," a work replete with useful information, was about the year 1762. He was twice married; by the first wife he had issue a daughter, married to one Mr Hardy, an apothecary in the Strand, who are both dead without issue; he afterwards became the third husband of the widow of Mr Coulter, formerly a wholesale linen-draper in Cornhill, by whom he had no issue. She was, like him, tall and graceful; and her face has been thought to have some resemblance to that of the ever-living countess of Desmond, given in Mr Pennant's first Tour in Scotland. Mr Anderson died at his house in Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell, January 10. 1775. He had a good library of books, which were sold by his widow, who survived him several years, and died in 1781.