George Knox Anderson JP (1854 – 19 March 1941) was briefly the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Canterbury.
Professionally, he was the Director of the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers, Ltd.[2] Anderson was elected unopposed in August 1918 to succeed Francis Bennett-Goldney,[3] who was killed in a motoring accident while in France a month prior.
[4] Anderson was seen a temporary replacement until the following General Election, as he was approved by the two feuding Conservative groups in Canterbury.
[5] He retired at the dissolution three months later, becoming one of the shortest serving MPs on record.
For more than twenty years he was Honorary Treasurer of Canterbury Diocesan Board of Finance.