ANDERSON, Francis Evelyn (1752-1821).

In 1774 Anderson was returned unopposed for Grimsby on his brother’s interest, and in 1780 at Beverley. Like Charles Pelham he voted with the Opposition till the fall of North; voted against Shelburne’s peace preliminaries, 18 Feb. 1783, and was classed by Robinson in March 1783 as a follower of Fox. He voted for Pitt’s parliamentary reform proposals, 7 May 1783; for Fox’s East India bill, 27 Nov. 1783, and was listed as a Foxite by Robinson in January 1784 and in Stockdale’s list of March. George III wrote to Pitt on 30 Mar.:Chatham mss. ‘I understand ... Beverley is so offended with Major Anderson, that any fresh man would probably succeed there’; and Anderson was defeated at the general election. He does not appear to have attempted to re-enter Parliament. There is no record of his having spoken in the House.

Anderson died 12 Sept. 1821.