| LC control no. | n 88067810 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Anderson, Arthur, 1792-1868 |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Located | Shetland (Scotland) |
| Birth date | 17920219 |
| Death date | 18680227 |
| Affiliation | Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company |
| Profession or occupation | Shipowners Legislators |
| Found in | His Steam communication with India, a letter to the directors of the projected East Indian Steam Navigation Company ... 1840: t.p. (Arthur Anderson) NUC pre-56 (Anderson, Arthur, 1792-1868) Oxford dictionary of national biography WWW site, 23 Jan., 2014 (Anderson, Arthur, shipowner; born at Grimista, near Lerwick, Shetland Islands, on 19 Feb,. 1792; Willcox and Anderson decided to establish a regular steamship line between Britain and the Iberian peninsula, the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company; the service began in September 1837; in 1840 it changed its name to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P. & O.); in September 1847 he was elected as a radical Liberal MP for Orkney and Shetland, he held the seat until July 1852; by the time of Anderson's death in 1868 the P. & O. had the largest commercial fleet of steamships in the world and provided the main link between Britain and its imperial possessions in India, the Far East, and Australia; died of bronchitis at 18 Park Lane, London, on 27 Feb., 1868) <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/46493?docPos=1> |
| Associated language | eng |
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