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Bertram Anderson

Bertram Anderson

English merchant, politician and MP for Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1505–71)

Bertram Anderson (1505 – 14 March 1571) was an English merchant, landowner and politician who represented Newcastle-upon-Tyne and served once as Sheriff, three times as Mayor and was elected five times as MP in the House of Commons between 1553 and 1563 and was also Governor of the Merchant Adventurers of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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Background

Anderson was the son of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne grocer and merchant Henry Anderson (c.1484–1559) and his wife, Anne Orde, the daughter of Robert Orde of Ord, Northumberland.[1][2]

Career

Anderson was elected Sheriff (1543–44) and Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1551–52, 1557–58, 1563–64), and was also Escheator of Northumberland (1555–56).[3] He was elected to Parliament to represent Newcastle-upon-Tyne at the Parliaments of 1553, April 1554, November 1554, 1558, and 1563.[4]

As a merchant he traded in the Baltic and with the Netherlands, and later extended his interests to coal mining. He also purchased lands in Coken and Haswell, County Durham, among other properties.[1] He later resided at Haswell Grange, Haswell, County Durham. Like his father, he was Governor of the Merchant Adventurers of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1551–52, 1557–58). Anderson died on 14 March 1571.[4][5][6]

Family

Anderson married Alice Carr, the daughter of Ralph or Robert Carr of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.[4] They had five children, including Henry (1545–1605).[2]

Arms

Coat of arms of Bertram Anderson
Notes
The arms of the Andersons of Newcastle-upon-Tyne[2]
Escutcheon
Or, on a chevron Gules between three birds’ heads erased Sable, as many acorns slipped Argent, on a canton Sable three martlets Argent.

Ancestry

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References

  1. [1]
    History of Parliament Online – Anderson, Bertram
  2. [2]
    Archive.org – G.W. Marshall, The Visitation of Northumberland in 1615 (1878)
  3. [3]
    "Newcastle City Council Mayors and Sheriffs 1600–1699". Archived from the original on 17 March 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  4. [4]
    History of Parliament Online – Anderson, Bertram
  5. [5]
    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. 335–42.
  6. [6]
    Archive.org – Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham, Part III, ed. John Crawford Hodgson, Surtees Society, 112 (1906), pp. 58–61.
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