Bertram Anderson (1505 – 14 March 1571) was an English merchant, landowner and politician who represented

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and served once as

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, three times as

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and was elected five times as MP in the

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between 1553 and 1563 and was also Governor of the Merchant Adventurers of

Background

Anderson was the son of the

grocer and merchant Henry Anderson (c.1484–1559) and his wife, Anne Orde, the daughter of Robert Orde of

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.History of Parliament Online – Anderson, Bertram
/ref> Archive.org – G.W. Marshall, ''The Visitation of Northumberland in 1615'' (1878)
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Career

Anderson was elected

(1543–44) and

(1551–52, 1557–58, 1563–64), and was also Escheator of

(1555–56). He was elected to Parliament to represent

at the Parliaments of 1553, April 1554, November 1554, 1558, and 1563.History of Parliament Online – Anderson, Bertram
/ref> As a merchant he traded in the

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and with the

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, and later extended his interests to coal mining. He also purchased lands in Coken and Haswell, County Durham, among other properties. He later resided at

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. Like his father, he was Governor of the Merchant Adventurers of

(1551–52, 1557–58). Anderson died on 14 March 1571.Archive.org – ''Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham, Part III''
ed. John Crawford Hodgson,

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, 112 (1906), pp. 58–61.

Family

Anderson married Alice Carr, the daughter of Ralph or Robert Carr of

. They had five children, including Henry (1545–1605).

Arms

Ancestry

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Henry 1505 births 1571 deaths Anderson family (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) English MPs 1554 English MPs 1558 English MPs 1563–1567 English MPs 1553 (Edward VI) English MPs 1554–1555 Mayors of Newcastle upon Tyne Politicians from Newcastle upon Tyne People from Haswell, County Durham 16th-century English merchants