[1][2] He got his right knee badly hurt in the match and that curtailed his rugby union career; and he then concentrated on cricket.
[4] He left Merchiston to play for the West of Scotland cricket club in Glasgow.
He became a stockbroker for the firm Kerr, Andersons, Dunn, Warren & Co.[5] His parents William Anderson and Janet Wilson Dick (d.1899) married on 21 June 1842.
[5] Thomas was their youngest son, born in Ledcameroch in New Kilpatrick.
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