William Herbert Anderson ('Bertie'), was born in December 1881. Alexander Ronald ('Ronnie') followed in 1884, Harry in 1887 (he died of an obstructed bowel, aged only one week), Charles Hamilton ('Charlie'), in 1888, and the last, Edward Kerr Anderson ('Teddie'), in 1896. They were the sons of William James Anderson, a Glasgow accountant and stockbroker, who worked in his father's accountancy firm of Kerr, Anderson, Muir and Main, and Eleanora Kay (known as 'Nora'), the daughter of a wealthy East India merchant, whose family home, Cornhill House at Biggar, was designed by William Leiper, architect of the 'Doge's Palace' carpet factory beside Glasgow Green. William Anderson's father was a liquidator of the notorious City of Glasgow Bank from 1878-80.
The family moved from Woodlands Terrace, near Park Circus, to St James (now Ruskin) Terrace, Great Western Road, in the mid-1880s, and then to Woodside Terrace, overlooking Kelvingrove Park around 1900.
The boys all attended Fettes College in Edinburgh, but only Bertie followed his father as an accountant. He joined the Volunteers (The Territorial Force, later The Territorial Army) in 1900, and married Gertrude Gilmour, daughter of a 'Turkey Red' dye-manufacturer, in 1908. He settled in Cardross with his wife and two sons, from where he commuted to his father's firm, Kerr, Anderson and MacLeod (the partners had changed), in West George Street, Glasgow. The 'MacLeod' partner was the father of the future Lord MacLeod of Fuinary, whose own traumatic experiences in the Great War inspired him to found the socially-active Iona Community.
The Anderson family suffered an appalling loss with the deaths of all four of their sons on active service, but they had already suffered the death of their fifth son, Harry, as an infant in 1887.
The family moved from Woodlands Terrace, near Park Circus, to St James (now Ruskin) Terrace, Great Western Road, in the mid-1880s, and then to Woodside Terrace, overlooking Kelvingrove Park around 1900.
The boys all attended Fettes College in Edinburgh, but only Bertie followed his father as an accountant. He joined the Volunteers (The Territorial Force, later The Territorial Army) in 1900, and married Gertrude Gilmour, daughter of a 'Turkey Red' dye-manufacturer, in 1908. He settled in Cardross with his wife and two sons, from where he commuted to his father's firm, Kerr, Anderson and MacLeod (the partners had changed), in West George Street, Glasgow. The 'MacLeod' partner was the father of the future Lord MacLeod of Fuinary, whose own traumatic experiences in the Great War inspired him to found the socially-active Iona Community.
The Anderson family suffered an appalling loss with the deaths of all four of their sons on active service, but they had already suffered the death of their fifth son, Harry, as an infant in 1887.
William Herbert Anderson ('Bertie'), was born in December 1881. Alexander Ronald ('Ronnie') followed in 1884, Harry in 1887 (he died of an obstructed bowel, aged only one week), Charles Hamilton ('Charlie'), in 1888, and the last, Edward Kerr Anderson ('Teddie'), in 1896. They were the sons of William James Anderson, a Glasgow accountant and stockbroker, who worked in his father's accountancy firm of Kerr, Anderson, Muir and Main, and Eleanora Kay (known as 'Nora'), the daughter of a wealthy East India merchant, whose family home, Cornhill House at Biggar, was designed by William Leiper, architect of the 'Doge's Palace' carpet factory beside Glasgow Green. William Anderson's father was a liquidator of the notorious City of Glasgow Bank from 1878-80.
The family moved from Woodlands Terrace, near Park Circus, to St James (now Ruskin) Terrace, Great Western Road, in the mid-1880s, and then to Woodside Terrace, overlooking Kelvingrove Park around 1900.
The boys all attended Fettes College in Edinburgh, but only Bertie followed his father as an accountant. He joined the Volunteers (The Territorial Force, later The Territorial Army) in 1900, and married Gertrude Gilmour, daughter of a 'Turkey Red' dye-manufacturer, in 1908. He settled in Cardross with his wife and two sons, from where he commuted to his father's firm, Kerr, Anderson and MacLeod (the partners had changed), in West George Street, Glasgow. The 'MacLeod' partner was the father of the future Lord MacLeod of Fuinary, whose own traumatic experiences in the Great War inspired him to found the socially-active Iona Community.
The Anderson family suffered an appalling loss with the deaths of all four of their sons on active service, but they had already suffered the death of their fifth son, Harry, as an infant in 1887.
The family moved from Woodlands Terrace, near Park Circus, to St James (now Ruskin) Terrace, Great Western Road, in the mid-1880s, and then to Woodside Terrace, overlooking Kelvingrove Park around 1900.
The boys all attended Fettes College in Edinburgh, but only Bertie followed his father as an accountant. He joined the Volunteers (The Territorial Force, later The Territorial Army) in 1900, and married Gertrude Gilmour, daughter of a 'Turkey Red' dye-manufacturer, in 1908. He settled in Cardross with his wife and two sons, from where he commuted to his father's firm, Kerr, Anderson and MacLeod (the partners had changed), in West George Street, Glasgow. The 'MacLeod' partner was the father of the future Lord MacLeod of Fuinary, whose own traumatic experiences in the Great War inspired him to found the socially-active Iona Community.
The Anderson family suffered an appalling loss with the deaths of all four of their sons on active service, but they had already suffered the death of their fifth son, Harry, as an infant in 1887.
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