LC control no. | n 85017671 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Anderson, James, approximately 1680-1739 |
Variant(s) | Anderson, J. (James), approximately 1680-1739 Anderson, James, ca. 1680-1739 |
Associated country | Great Britain Scotland |
Located | London (England) |
Birth date | 1680~ |
Death date | 1739 |
Place of birth | Aberdeen (Scotland) |
Place of death | London (England) |
Field of activity | Preaching Freemasonry |
Affiliation | Church of Scotland Freemasons. Ancient Grand Lodge (England) |
Profession or occupation | Clergy Freemasons |
Special note | Data provided by the ESTC/BL |
Found in | His 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 language | eng |