(b Edinburgh, 5 April 1834; d Edinburgh, 1 June 1921). Scottish architect. He was the dominant figure in Scottish architecture during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. The son of a solicitor, he abandoned legal training in 1852 to begin an architectural career in the office of John Lessels, a leading practitioner in Edinburgh. He studied at the Trustees’ Academy and was influenced by Alexander Christie, director of its School of Design. In 1857 Anderson joined George Gilbert Scott’s staff in London, leaving for a continental tour in 1859 and returning to Edinburgh in 1860 as a civilian architect with the Royal Engineers. While attached to the Engineers, he designed a number of small Episcopal churches that show his mastery of the archaeologically accurate Gothic style popularized in England by the Ecclesiological Society, for example All Saints, Edinburgh (1866–78).

• Anderson, (Robert) Rowand
  • assistants
    • Bidlake, William Henry
    • Browne, George Washington
  • groups and movements
    • Scottish Baronial
  • pupils
    • Lorimer, Robert S.
    • Mitchell, Sydney
    • Schultz, Robert Weir
  • staff
    • Troup, F. W.
  • works
    • Glasgow, §1(ii): History and urban development, 1750–1918
    • Scotland, §II, 4(iv): Architecture, c 1800–1914: Country houses and villas
    • Scotland, §V, 3: Interior decoration, 1791–1914
    • Scotland, §V, 4: Interior decoration, after 1914
    • Scotland, §XIV, 1: Museums: Edinburgh
    • Stuart: (2) John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute