| Order | 10th |
|---|---|
| Office | Governor of British Ceylon |
| Term start | 27 November 1850 |
| Term end | 18 January 1855 |
| Predecessor | Charles Justin MacCarthy (Acting governor) |
| Successor | Charles Justin MacCarthy (Acting governor) |
| Monarch | Queen Victoria |
| Birth date | 1791 |
| Death date | 12 March 1857 (aged approx. 66) |
Sir George William Anderson (1791 – 12 March 1857[1]) was the officiating governor of Bombay during the British Raj from 28 April 1841 to 9 June 1842.
Anderson entered the Bombay Civil Service in 1806. He was responsible for drawing up the Bombay Civil Code of 1827 and served as a judge in the Sadr Diwani and Sadr Faujdari courts. In 1838, he was named to the Indian Law Commission and from 1843 to 1846 was President of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. He was knighted in 1849.[1]
He was 7th Governor of Mauritius from 8 June 1849 until 19 October 1850,[2] when he was appointed governor of Ceylon, following the harsh suppression of the 1848 civil uprising by the previous office holder, Viscount Torrington.[3] He resigned in 1855.[1]
References
- Great Britain. India Office (1919). The India list and India Office list. Harrison.
- ^ "Sir George William Anderson". Dictionary of Indian Biography. Haskell House Publishers. 1971. p. 13. Retrieved 2011-08-06.
- ^ Mauritius Archived 2009-06-02 at the Wayback Machine World Statesmen.org
- ^ Katherine Prior, ‘Anderson, Sir George William (1791–1857)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004