Nigel Anderson

Nigel James Moffatt Anderson, MC, DL, FRGS (1920 – 23 May 2008) was a British soldier, landowner, and Conservative politician in Wiltshire.

[1][2][3] In 1939, some months before the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined the 4th (Territorial Army) Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and was commissioned a second lieutenant on 27 May 1939.

[4] First posted to Northern Ireland, he took part in the Norwegian Campaign of April to June 1940, one of the first British engagements of the war, in which his unit covered the withdrawal of the Scots Guards from Krokstrand.

He chaired a number of committees, was an alderman of the county, and succeeded Frank Willan as Chairman of the Council from 1979 to 1983, when he retired.

In his book Battling for Peace (1999), Richard Needham, Wiltshire member of parliament and Northern Ireland minister, recalls attending a service at Westminster Abbey in 1991: The former chairman of the county council and high sheriff for the year, Nigel Anderson, was a redoubtable old soldier who had a profound dislike of Mrs Thatcher and kept muttering "Well done, keep it up" in a loud whisper at every opportunity when there was a lull in the service.