Robert Stirling Hore Anderson

Robert Stirling Hore Anderson, MLC (1821 – 26 October 1883) was an Irish-born solicitor and Australian colonial (Victorian) parliamentarian.

[1] Anderson was born at Articlave near Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland, and was educated at the Belfast Academy and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A., 1845.

The Cabinet was reconstructed under the premiership of the George Kerferd, under whom Mr. Anderson held the same offices till August 1875, when the first Berry Ministry was formed.

The latter having been defeated, Anderson came back to office under Sir James McCulloch in October 1875 as Commissioner of Trade and Customs, and held that post till the Ministry was again displaced by Berry in May 1877.

[2] When the Service-Berry coalition was formed in March 1883 Anderson became Minister of Justice, and retained the post until his death on 26 October 1883[3] in Kew, Victoria.