Sir William John Anderson (1847 – 27 August 1908) was a British barrister and colonial judge. He was Chief Justice of British Honduras from 1890 to 1900 and

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from 1900 to 1903. The son of Sir George Campbell Anderson, William John Anderson was educated at

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and was called to the English bar at

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in 1869. From 1874 to 1882, he was a judge of the Supreme Court, Turks Islands.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, William 1847 births 1908 deaths Knights Bachelor Members of Lincoln's Inn Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford Turks and Caicos Islands judges Chief justices of Belize Chief justices of Trinidad and Tobago 19th-century Jamaican judges