The Andersons of Lea, Gainsborough

Despite being a large Lincolnshire landowner, owning Lea Hall near Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. However, the Anderson's also owned estates in Yorkshire, including Burnby.

Sir Charles Henry John Anderson, 9th Bat. (1804-1891)

Sir Charles Henry John Anderson who was the 9th and last Baronet, was a local historian and had a close connection with the East Riding of Yorkshire.

His records that are kept in Lincolnshire Archives reveals decades long correspondence with two of William Wilberforce's sons (Samuel and Robert), who he would've met when at Oxford, and had an engraving of Lea Hall done by Nunburnholme's Francis Orpen Morris.

'Lea Hall' engraved by Nunburnholme's Francis Morris.

Charles and his wife Emma had 6 children; 3 girls and 3 boys. He would die having outlived all his heirs and with only his spinster daughter Emma Theodasia left, who lived at The Lindens, Lincolnshire.

Sir Charles Anderson's wife, Emma Foljambe.

Marmaduke Morris mentions Sir Charles Anderson in his 1922 publication 'Yorkshire Reminiscences (with others)'

There was no squire's house at Burnby, but Sir Charles was attached to the place and to his tenantry, and he visited them periodically on rent audits and other occasions. On these occasions he generally stayed with his neighbour, Admiral Buncombe, at Kilnwick Percy. Burnby was only a small parish, and the farmers there in those days were like a happy family. Not only had they unbounded respect and affection for their squire, but they were on the most friendly terms with one another. They did not address each other by their ordinary names, but each had a byname such as Squire, Colonel, Pope, Cardinal ; these I remember, but there were others which I have forgotten. They all had common tastes and interests. They were all more or less sportsmen. I should say that Burnby in those days was, for its size, one of the * most ' horsey ' villages in the East Riding ; for, not only were horses bred there in considerable numbers, but there was living there for many years a celebrated jockey. This was none other than Simeon Templeman, commonly known on the Turf as ' Honest Sim ' — a fitting sobriquet.

Sir Charles Anderson was a descendent of Sir Edmund Anderson of Flixborough, who was Lord Chief Justice and became famous after judging the trial against Mary, Queen of Scots.

Sir Edmund Anderson (1530-1605) judge who presided over the execution of Mary Queen of Scots

Sources:

SIR CHARLES ANDERSON, BART. 1891. The Athenaeum, (3338), pp. 522.

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