Arthur Anderson (businessman)

Arthur Anderson ( born February 19, 1791 in Böd of Gremista, Lerwick, Shetland Islands, † February 28, 1868 in Norwood, London Borough of Lambeth ) was an English entrepreneur and politician.

Arthur Anderson first came in the Navy, which he left in 1815 but returned to transport due to lack of views, and devoted himself to the commercial sector.

His first major undertaking was the participation in the equipment of the expedition of Dom Pedro against the rule of Dom Miguel in Portugal. He played a prominent role in the then Anti- Corn Law movement as a member of the League, by word and writing for the Free Trade fighting.

In 1847 elected Member of Parliament for the islands of Orkney and Shetland, he advocated the repeal of the Navigation Acts and the other the development of trade -inhibiting laws vigorously in their place.

Anderson was in 1834 along with Brodie McGhie Willcox founder of the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company, and since 1867 the main director of the reorganized Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (" P & O "), which until the 1950s most of the postal and passenger traffic between England, the Iberian Peninsula and from 1852 ran the eastern English colonies.

Anderson also founded his own significant funds from an educational institution for craftsmen in Norwood, one other in Lerwick for poor children of the island of Shetland and institutions for the education of the children of seafarers, craftsmen and nationals of the said Steamship Company.

Anderson died on February 28, 1868 in Norwood, near London, and took place at the West Norwood Cemetery ( London Brough of Lambeth ) his final resting place.

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• Member of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)
• Entrepreneurs (19th Century )
• Briton
• Born in 1791
• Died in 1868
• Man