Anthony Anderson (theologian)

[1] A report was made to the church authorities and Anderson created a life-size drawing of a cat which he annotated and sent it to Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon.

Early in 1587 Anderson was appointed to the vicarage of Stepney near London, and to the rectory of Dengie in Essex, both of which he appears to have held in conjunction with his living in Leicestershire.

[3] In July 1592 he was promoted to the office of subdean of the Chapel Royal, after having held for some years previously the post of ‘gospeller’ there; and his name is found appended to many documents, relating to the management of the Chapel Royal, still preserved among its archives.

His published works, which are of a puritanic character, consist of sermons, prayers, and expositions of scriptural passages.

From the fact that he dedicated one of his publications to ‘Edmund Anderson, Esq., sergeant-at-law to the queen’, it is possible that he was related to the lord chief justice of that name.