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Tempest Anderson

Tempest Anderson

British eye surgeon and volcanologist

Tempest Anderson (7 December 1846 – 26 August 1913)[1] was an ophthalmic surgeon at York County Hospital in the United Kingdom, and an expert amateur photographer and volcanologist. He was a member of the Royal Society Commission which was appointed to investigate the aftermath of the eruptions of La Soufrière volcano, St Vincent and Mont Pelée, Martinique, West Indies which both erupted in May 1902. Some of his photographs of these eruptions were subsequently published in his book, Volcanic Studies in Many Lands.[2]

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Early life and education

He was born in York, was schooled at St Peter's School, York,[3] and studied medicine at the University of London.[4] His father was William Charles Anderson, surgeon and Sheriff of York.[5] His sister Constance married Percy Sladen, and his brother was Yarborough Anderson, a barrister. In 1904 Anderson received an honorary degree of DSc from the University of Leeds for his work on volcanoes.

The plaque outside Anderson's house in Stonegate

Anderson lived at the family home[6] of 17 Stonegate in the centre of York,[7] and at 23 Stonegate, which is now the home to the York Medical Society.[8] He built a pair of houses on the road now known as Moorgate, on land purchased from the Holgate Garden Society.[citation needed] In 1911 Anderson was made one of the vice-presidents of the Old Peterite Club at St Peter's School, York.[9]

Death and legacy

He was one of the five original Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Trust.[10] He was President of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, and in 1912 he presented the society with a 300-seat lecture theatre (the Tempest Anderson Hall) attached to the Yorkshire Museum in York Museum Gardens.[11] This was one of the world's first concrete buildings. He died on board ship on the Red Sea while returning from visiting the volcanoes of Indonesia and the Philippines. He was buried in Suez, Egypt. After his death, the houses he had built were left to his cousin, Colonel Fearnley Anderson.[citation needed]. He also bequeathed a substantial sum to the Yorkshire Museum.[12] He held Telephone Number "1" in the first York Telephone Directory in 1891, published by the "National Telephone Company".

Expeditions

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Mexico, Guatemala and the West Indies

Tempest Anderson spent nine months in Mexico, Guatemala and the West Indies in 1906/1907. He travelled to Mexico to attend the 10th Congres Geologique International before sailing by mail steamer to Guatemala to study the effects of the 1902 earthquake. During the trip he observed and photographed Cerro Quemado, Santa Maria, and Atitlan.[14] During this trip he collected first hand accounts of the 1902 eruption of the Santa Maria and the immediate aftermath. Captain Saunders of the Pacific Mail Steamer S.S. Newport observed the eruption cloud which rose to a great height. The Captain measured it using a sextant and recorded it as reaching 17 to 18 miles. The sounds accompanying the eruption were loud and were heard even louder at more distant places than close to the mountain. The eruption was heard as far away as Guatemala City, the noises so strong, they were assumed to come from neighbouring volcanoes.[15]

Publications

Articles

Books

Notes

  1. [1]
    Who's Who 1914, p. xxi
  2. [2]
    Tempest Anderson (1903) Volcanic Studies in Many Lands, London, John Murray, 202pp
  3. [3]
    "Obituary: Tempest Anderson, M. D., D. Sc". The Geographical Journal. 42 (5): 499–500. November 1913. JSTOR 1778747.
  4. [4]
    Pyrah, Barbara, ed. (1988), History of the Yorkshire Museum, p. 110
  5. [5]
    Critchley, Macdonald (August 1960). "Hughlings Jackson, the Man; and the Early Days of the National Hospital". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 53 (8): 613–618. doi:10.1177/003591576005300807. PMC 1869439. PMID 13812904.
  6. [6]
    Jim Spriggs (2013). "Dr Tempest Anderson (1846–1913)". Yorkshire Philosophical Society. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
  7. [7]
    "Records for Dr. Tempest Anderson". Exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society 1870–1915. De Montfort University. 2008. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
  8. [8]
    Historic England. "YORK MEDICAL SOCIETY (1256516)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  9. [9]
    "The Old Peterite Club Annual Meeting" (PDF). The Peterite. 21 (201): 570. July 1911. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 April 2014.
  10. [10]
    "Obituary. Tempest Anderson, M.D., D.Sc., F.G.S." Geological Magazine. 50: 478–479. 1913. doi:10.1017/s0016756800127633.
  11. [11]
    Suthren, R. J. (2004). "Anderson, Tempest (1846–1913)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37115. Retrieved 3 December 2007.
  12. [12]
    Pyrah, Barbara, ed. (1988), History of the Yorkshire Museum, p. 129
  13. [13]
    Suthren, Roger J. (April 1978). "The Tempest Anderson Collection of Photographs at Yorkshire Museum" (PDF). The Newsletter of the Geological Curators' Group. 2 (2): 68–80. doi:10.55468/GC1056. S2CID 251702357. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 March 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  14. [14]
    Anderson, Tempest (1908). The Volcanoes of Guatemala. London: The Royal Geographical Society. pp. 473–489.
  15. [15]
    Anderson, Tempest (1908). The Volcanoes of Guatemala. London: The Royal Geographical Society. p. 480.

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