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Anderson, James, approximately 1680-1739

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Personal name headingAnderson, James, approximately 1680-1739
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Variant(s)Anderson, J. (James), approximately 1680-1739
Anderson, James, ca. 1680-1739
Associated countryGreat Britain Scotland
LocatedLondon (England)
Birth date1680~
Death date1739
Place of birthAberdeen (Scotland)
Place of deathLondon (England)
Field of activityPreaching Freemasonry
AffiliationChurch of Scotland Freemasons. Ancient Grand Lodge (England)
Profession or occupationClergy Freemasons
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Found inHis A genealogical history of the House of Yvery, 1742: dedication (J. Anderson)
BM (Anderson, James, D.D., Minister of the Scots Church in Westminster)
Oxford DNB online, 26 October 2017 (Anderson, James (bap. 1679, d. 1739), Church of Scotland minister and historical writer; freemason; born in Aberdeen and baptized on 19 January 1679, Aberdeen; educated in Aberdeen, where he probably gained the degrees of MA and DD; ordained minister on 11 December 1707; he moved to London ... was appointed minister of the Presbyterian church in Swallow Street in 1710; in 1734, and he became minister of Lisle Street Chapel in Leicester Fields, London, where he remained until his death; was grand warden of the grand lodge of England; published a sermon called No King-killers; published: Unity and trinity; The constitutions of the free-masons; containing the history, charges, regulations, &c. of that fraternity (1723); A defence of masonry, occasioned by a pamphlet called 'Masonry dissected' (1738?); Royal genealogies; buried on 1 June 1739 in Bunhill Fields, Finsbury, London)
Associated languageeng