Francis Anderson (MP for Newcastle-upon-Tyne)

Sir Francis Anderson JP (21 December 1614 – 19 July 1679) was an English Royalist landowner and politician who represented Newcastle-upon-Tyne once as Sheriff, twice as Mayor and as MP in the House of Commons between 1660 and 1679.

Francis the Elder had been Sheriff (1595–6) and Mayor (1601–2, 1612–13) of Newcastle-upon-Tyne[2] and was a distant cousin of the Royalist Sir Henry Anderson.

Francis Anderson the Younger was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Gray's Inn.

[3] During the Civil War, he "was a devoted loyalist" and as a result was subsequently fined £1,200, stripped of his knighthood, imprisoned and had his property sequestered.

[2] Anderson lived at Greyfriars House, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in Jesmond, and Ryton, County Durham.