William Anderson (Victorian politician, born 1828)

[2] Anderson sat in the Legislative Assembly for Villiers and Heytesbury from May 1880 to April 1892, when he was defeated.

[3] In 1854 Anderson was elected an elder of the Presbyterian church, and was for two years president of the Protection of Aborigines Society.

He succeeded Chief Justice William Foster Stawell as president of the Royal Horticultural Society of Victoria.

[2] In 1887 he was awarded the Minister of Agriculture's prize for the best managed farm in southern Victoria.

He was appointed Minister of Public Works in the Gillies Government on 2 September 1890, and resigned with the rest of his colleagues in the following November.