Tempest Anderson (7 December 1846 – 26 August 1913)[1] was an ophthalmic surgeon at York County Hospital in the United Kingdom, and an expert amateur photographer and volcanologist.

[8] He built a pair of houses on the road now known as Moorgate, on land purchased from the Holgate Garden Society.

[citation needed] In 1911 Anderson was made one of the vice-presidents of the Old Peterite Club at St Peter's School, York.

He travelled to Mexico to attend the 10th Congres Geologique International before sailing by mail steamer to Guatemala to study the effects of the 1902 earthquake.

Captain Saunders of the Pacific Mail Steamer S.S. Newport observed the eruption cloud which rose to a great height.