John George Clark Anderson (6 December 1870 – 31 March 1952) was a classical scholar, who was Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford from 1927 to 1936.
J. G. C. Anderson, the son of a Scottish clergyman, was born on 6 December 1870, and was educated at Aberdeen University and Christ Church, Oxford.
He was a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, from 1897 to 1900, during which time he carried out archaeological explorations in Asia Minor.
He returned to Christ Church on his appointment as a Senior Student (the equivalent at Christ Church of Fellows at other colleges) in 1900, and won the university's Conington Prize in 1903.
[1] Anderson opposed the appointment of Albert Einstein as a Student at Christ Church on nationalistic and perhaps even xenophobic grounds (according to Henry Julian White, the Dean of Christ Church) in the early 1930s.