Robert Anderson (7 January 1750 – 20 February 1830) was a Scottish author and critic.
He studied first divinity and then medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and subsequently, after some experience as a surgeon, took his M.D.
He began to practise as a physician at Alnwick in Northumberland, but he became financially independent by his marriage with the daughter of John Gray, and abandoned his profession for a literary life in Edinburgh.
[2] For several years his attention was occupied with his edition of The Works of the British Poets, with Prefaces Biographical and Critical (14 vols.
[4] He was a Scottish Freemason having been Initiated in The Lodge of Holyrood House (St Luke's), No.44, in 1781.