John Gerard Anderson

John Gerard Anderson ISO (12 February 1836 – 23 August 1911) was a Scottish-born Australian educationist.

He was associated with the introduction of free, compulsory and secular education, and was a member of the 1981 Royal Commission to establish the University of Queensland.

Confronted by demands for change, Anderson became "cautious, conservative and autocratic" and was criticized by the 1887 royal commission as running the department in an arbitrary manner.

[1][3] On 17 April 1873, Anderson married Edith Sarah, daughter of William Wood, reader at the Queensland Government Printing Office.

[1] One of his daughters, artist Edith Susan Gerard Anderson, married painter Theodore Penleigh Boyd.

An unidentified residence in Bowen Hills , described as the residence of the first inspector of schools. ( State Library of Queensland , c. 1875 )