Frederick Anderson (soccer player)

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Frederick Anderson
Frederick Anderson, Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council.jpg
Personnel
birthday November 17, 1855
place of birth Milton , Glasgow ,  Scotland
date of death January 5, 1940
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1872 Clydesdale FC
1872-1873 FC Queen's Park
1873-1874 Clydesdale FC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1874 Scotland 1 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Frederick Anderson (born November 17, 1855 in Milton , Glasgow , † January 5, 1940 ) was a Scottish football player , businessman and sports official . He served two terms as Chairman of the Shanghai City Council during the Foreign Concessions .

Career and life

Frederick Anderson was born on November 17, 1855 in Milton, Glasgow, a few miles north of the city center. He was the eighth of eleven children of James (a drapery ) and Jane Anderson, who were 44 and 39 years old at birth, respectively. His oldest sibling was brother James, who was 17 years old at the time of his birth. According to the 1871 census, he lived with his family with four domestic workers in Wilmslow, England when he was 15 years old . Anderson was taught at Glasgow Academy, a famous rugby school, and later at Hawthorn Hall in Wilmslow. Maybe he learned to play football at the English school. He began his professional career as a commercial clerk here after leaving school at the age of 15.

He appeared in Scottish football from the early 1870s. He started playing at club level for Clydesdale FC . On March 7, 1874 Anderson completed an international game for the Scottish national football team . In the third official international game in football, which was played in his hometown of Glasgow at Hamilton Crescent , Anderson scored the first Scottish goal in a 2-1 victory over England . Two weeks later he played with Clydesdale on March 21, 1874 in Hampden Park against FC Queen's Park in the Scottish Cup final . Queen's Park won 2-0 after goals from Billy MacKinnon and Robert Leckie . The Scottish Association states that Anderson ended his football career around 1881.

In the early 1880s, Anderson moved to the Far East . From 1882 he lived in Shanghai where he initially worked for Holliday, Wise & Company, with which he stayed until 1890. He then worked for Ilbert & Company. From March 1882 he was secretary and later president of the Shanghai Cricket Club . Anderson served on Shanghai City Council for eight years from 1892 to 1897. After the resignation of James Fearon, he was elected chairman in August 1899 and served until 1900. From 1904 to 1906 he was again chairman. He was also the local chairman of the China Association in Shanghai. Anderson was President of the Shanghai Rugby Club in 1898, 1899, 1908 and 1909.

From the 1901 census, Anderson lived briefly with his wife (Sophia Louisa Ward, 1871-1967), and his three-year-old son and two servants on Queen Street in Westminster , London . He married his wife, the daughter of Admiral Thomas Le Hunte Ward , on June 4, 1896 in Kensington .

He finally left Shanghai in 1909 and returned to London. In 1919 he was chairman of the China Association in London and in 1922 he was re-elected President of the Association.

According to the 1911 Census, he lived at Queen's Gate in South Kensington with his wife, three daughters, and mother-in-law . A cook, a butler, three maids, a servant and a nurse also shared his house. His son was at St. Peter's Boarding School in Broadstairs , Kent at the time

Anderson continued his interest in China and was governor of the School of Oriental Studies (now SOAS) from 1917 to 1939 . The school reported that he was an internationally known art collector and scholar of Chinese ceramics. In October 1923, a school library was named after him and two Chinese colleagues from Shanghai, Yoh Ping Han (郁 屏 翰) and Tseng Hiang Yu (鄭 良 裕).

In 1922 he bought Standen Manor , a manor house built in 1732 near Hungerford in Berkshire. The house remained in the family until 1981 when it was sold.

Frederick Anderson died on January 5, 1940, leaving a sizable estate with an estate value of £ 261,652.

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personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION scottish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Milton , Glasgow , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1940