John Anderson

John was educated at the Anderson Institute and went to Edinburgh in 1869 aged 17 to take legal training. He served an apprenticeship and studied law while in Edinburgh, and was admitted as a law agent on 10 January 1882. He returned to Shetland and started his own firm at Anderson Place, before moving to 58 Commercial Street. Although on the County Council he elected to the Lerwick North seat, he transferred in 1901 to Northmavine South as Lerwick members were excluded from parts of the County business in which Lerwick had no interest. He retired from his firm in 1935 and his business was taken over by Peter Goodlad, under the name J. B. Anderson & Goodlad. Politically, John was a Liberal and was the local Liberal Agent for a number of years. He was described by the Shetland Times as "one of Shetland's most prominent and most respected sons" when he died in 1938.