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35: 20: 243:, and was Chairman of P&O from 1854 until his death. Other chairs included the coal transport company the Union Steam Ship Company (which he created in 1853 to supply his P&O line ships with fuel) and the 788: 288:'s coronation in 1838, Anderson gave her some Shetland lace articles. The queen subsequently bought twelve pairs of lace stockings which led to a significant increase in sales of Shetland lace. 783: 232:(1852), supported by government mail contracts. Anderson had a thrusting entrepreneurial character and by his death in 1868 P&O had the largest commercial fleet of steamships in the world. 273: 220:
They followed this with a regular steamship service in 1830, called the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company, which became in 1837 the Peninsular and Orient (
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where he became a partner in 1822 and the firm was renamed Wilcox and Anderson. They developed the shipping business between Britain and the
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men, he was left destitute 600 miles from home after his service to King and country during the
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His nephew James Anderson, who worked in P&O, was married to the medical pioneer
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and eventually became a clerk in the London shipping and insurance firm of
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Orkney and Shetland
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in 1808. Anderson was discharged 10 years later in Plymouth. Like many
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Whig (British political party) MPs for Scottish constituencies
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to wait until he had finished his apprenticeship before his
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: England's First Woman Physician
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Winn, Christopher (2007). "Arthur Anderson (1792-1868)".
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