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27-1149: James Anderson may refer to: Arts [ edit ] James Anderson (American actor) (1921–1969), American actor James Anderson (British author) (1936–2007), British mystery writer James Anderson (English actor) (born 1980), British actor James Anderson (filmmaker) (1902–1960), American film director James Anderson (songwriter) (1825–1899), Tyneside songwriter James Anderson (American writer) , American television writer James Arthur Anderson (born 1955), American writer James McConnell Anderson (1907–1998), American painter and potter Big Dad Ritch (James Richard Earl Anderson), lead vocalist for American heavy metal band Texas Hippie Coalition James Robertson Anderson (1811–1895), Scottish actor James William Anderson III (born 1937), American singer Government [ edit ] James Anderson (British politician) (1800–1864), lord provost of Glasgow and British MP for Stirling James Anderson (Manitoba politician) (1903–1983), Canadian politician James Drummond Anderson (1886–1968) , financial commissioner of

54-576: A Captain R. Neilson collected some specimens at Rio de Janeiro and reached Diamond Harbour aboard the Contractor on 15 September 1794. Anderson also learned of Opuntia growing in the vicinity of Mylapore locally called naga kalli which had been brought in by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century. Although a scale insect that yielded cochineal was established, it was found to be inferior to Mexican sylvestre cochineal. In 1797 about 4000 pounds of cochineal

81-453: A cousin of Dr Andrew Berry (Berry was Anderson's nephew, son of his sister Janet who was married to William Berry). Ann died in 1810 and her memorial was erected by Berry. Anderson's bridge (over the Cooum, now called College Bridge between Moore's and Pantheon roads) and Anderson road (which remains in use, connecting Haddows and Greams Roads) were named after him and a monument to him by Chantrey

108-531: A fake notice under an Indian pseudonym Calvi Virumbom was inserted into the Madras Courier , a local newspaper and the "discovery" was then propagated widely. He died at his garden home in Madras which was later occupied by Sir Thomas Pycroft became Pycroft Gardens. He married Maria Rheta de la Mabonay on 1766 and they had a daughter Ann Anderson who married merchant Charles Wallace Young (d. 1801 at Palamcottah),

135-738: A grant of 2000 pounds from the Committee of Secrecy of the East India Company. Opuntia specimens with cochineal were then collected from Brazil in 1789 and shipped to India and they reached India. They were grown in Samalkotta by William Roxburgh . It was considered as a suitable food for famine relief but the people in the region refused it. Anderson however was able to get poor people in Madras to incorporate it into their food. Anderson then sent Opuntia across southern India supposedly for famine relief. Attempts to transport cochineal insects failed until

162-596: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages James Anderson (American actor) Anderson was born to J. O. Anderson and his wife. His sister was Mary Anderson , who also became an actor. In 1938, while attending Shades-Cahaba High School, he played halfback on the football team. He later studied acting for a year at the University of Alabama . After leaving Alabama for Los Angeles , Anderson trained under Max Reinhardt for six months. While there, he starred in

189-737: Is installed at St George's Cathedral in Madras. His memorial in the compound of St. Mary's Church had a bust and a magnifying glass which are lost. Trade in cochineal was predominantly controlled by the Spanish starting from 1523 to around 1730. With the prices growing, and the growing demand for red coats with the English army uniform regulations introduced in 1645 had even led to piracy of Spanish ships sailing from Mexico to Europe. In 1786 James Anderson wrote to Joseph Banks about scale insects found in Madras that appeared to be similar to cochineal that he identified as Kermes . The generic name of this insect

216-1242: The Anderson River (Northwest Territories) was named James Anderson (Freemason) (1679/80–1739), Church of Scotland minister, author and Freemason James Anderson (lawyer) (1662–1728), Scottish lawyer James Anderson (missionary) (fl. 1865–1870), Protestant Christian missionary James Anderson of Hermiston (1739–1808), Scottish Enlightenment agriculturalist, lawyer, inventor, economist, writer, publisher James Anderson (sea captain) (1824–1893), captain of SS Great Eastern laying transatlantic telegraph cable James Anderson (trade unionist) (died 1917), British trade union leader James Craig Anderson (1963–2011), American murder victim James M. Anderson (hospital executive) , American hospital executive Sir James Norman Dalrymple Anderson (1908–1994), English missionary and academic Arabist James R. Anderson (1864–1913), lawyer in South Australia See also [ edit ] Jim Anderson (disambiguation) Jamie Anderson (disambiguation) Jimmy Anderson (disambiguation) James Andersen (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

243-506: The 1963 episode “Last Seen Wearing Blue Jeans” (S1E28). On September 14, 1969 in Billings, Montana , Anderson died suddenly while on location for Little Big Man . He was survived by his mother and sister. In 2010, Mary Badham , who starred alongside Anderson in To Kill a Mockingbird , praised his method acting style: "[W]hen he walked on the set, he was that character. He gave everybody

270-822: The Pint-Sized Client," and murder victim Stanley Piper in the 1960 episode, "The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker." He appeared in a number of westerns throughout his career, often playing a gun-for-hire or outlaw...including "Sanctuary at Crystal Springs", the controversial 1963 episode of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series The Dakotas , that led to the series' cancellation, where he played the main antagonist. . He also appeared on Gunsmoke in 1963, playing an outlaw named “Harmon” in S12E7’s “The Wrong Man”. That same year he guest starred on Alfred Hitchcock Presents in

297-1682: The Punjab James Drummond Anderson (1852–1920) , member of the Indian Civil Service James H. Anderson (politician) (1878–1936), lieutenant governor of Delaware in the 1920s James Hodson Anderson (1909–1996), Nebraska attorney general James Lee Anderson (born 1948), American politician in the Wyoming Senate James Sibree Anderson (1841–1927), Scottish-born Wisconsin politician James Thomas Milton Anderson (1878–1946), Canadian politician; premier of Saskatchewan, 1929–1934 James Alexander Anderson (died 1930), Canadian politician Military [ edit ] James Anderson (defense official) , acting under secretary of defense for policy James Anderson Jr. (1947–1967), USMC, Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient James Anderson (Royal Navy officer) (1765–1835) James Anderson (Medal of Honor) (1849–1918), American Indian Wars soldier James Patton Anderson (1822–1872), Confederate Army general Science [ edit ] James A. Anderson (cognitive scientist) (born 1940), American professor of cognitive science and brain science at Brown University James A. D. W. Anderson (born 1958), British computer scientist James Anderson (biomedical engineer) , American professor of pathology, macromolecular science and biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University James Anderson (botanical collector) (1797–1842), Scottish botanical collector who later became

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324-629: The Queensland representative team James Anderson (footballer) , Scottish footballer Jamie Anderson (golfer) (James Anderson, 1842–1905), Scottish golfer Jim Anderson (swimmer) (James Allan Anderson, born 1963), British Paralympic swimmer James Anderson (tennis) (1894–1973), Australian tennis player James Oswald Anderson (1872–1932), Argentine sportsman Other [ edit ] James A. Anderson (academic administrator) , chancellor of Fayetteville State University James Anderson (explorer) , Hudson's Bay Company executive after whom

351-1494: The Superintendent of the Sydney Botanic Gardens James Anderson (botanist) (1739–1809), Scottish botanist James Anderson (civil engineer) (1793–1861), Scottish civil engineer James Anderson (mechanical engineer) (1871–1945), Scottish mechanical engineer James B. Anderson (1935–2021), American professor of chemistry and physics at Penn State University James D. Anderson (1930–1976), American herpetologist James G. Anderson (born 1944), American professor of atmospheric chemistry at Harvard University James H. Anderson (computer scientist) , American computer scientist James M. Anderson (scientist) , American scientist Sir James Anderson, 1st Baronet (1792–1861), Irish inventor Sports [ edit ] James Allan Anderson (chess player) (1906–1991), American chess player James Anderson (American football) (born 1983), American football linebacker James Anderson (badminton) (born 1974), English badminton player James Anderson (basketball) (born 1989), American basketball player Duncan Anderson (James Duncan Anderson, born 1931), Australian amateur Australian rules footballer and cricketer for Oxford University James Anderson (cricketer) (born 1982), English international cricketer James Anderson (Australian cricketer) (1889–1951), Australian cricketer for

378-497: The cultivation of cochineal insects. He then attempted to introduce various other economically valuable plants , and examined silk and lac production. He maintained a steady communication with his friend from youth, James Anderson LLD (1739–1808) who published some of his notes in The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer , which has led to the use of the distinguishing form James Anderson MD or James Anderson of Madras . Anderson

405-562: The cultivation of sugarcane, coffee and cotton (in 1790 he was involved in introducing Bourbon cotton in Salem, Thirunelveli and Coimbatore ), with several notes published in The Bee edited by James Anderson, LLD , his childhood friend with whom he kept a lifelong correspondence. They wrote biographical notes on each other. Their names have led to confounding of some of their writings. In his medical practice, he also examined local therapeutics and examined plants of medical importance. He found

432-459: The insects sent by Anderson as Coccus and it was declared by the dyers' guild to be useless. However Banks decided that the Spanish cochineal should be able to grow in Madras given the similar latitudes and he asked Anderson to organize a nopalry ( Opuntia garden, Opuntia was earlier called Nopalea cochenillifera from which the term Nopalery or Nopalry is derived) in Mambalam ("Marmalon") with

459-518: The last surviving Opuntia was noted by Maria Graham . After his death, the garden was maintained by Dr. Andrew Berry. William Roxburgh (1751–1815) named the genus Andersonia after him in 1832. The name is an illegitimate homonym as the name was already in use for a member of the Ericaceae described by Robert Brown in 1810. The binomial of the eri silk moth Samia ricini has sometimes been attributed to Anderson but research now suggests that

486-480: The native remedy of smoking the roots of " Datura ferox " effective in treating asthma. He however did not recommend some native remedies such as arsenic containing pills for use in snakebite. He examined the eye worm of horses and described a case of epigastric heteropagus conjoint twins which was illustrated by Thomas Reichel. While heading the Madras Medical Board, he recommended Lord Clive to abolish

513-456: The play Zero Hour , written by George Sklar and Albert Maltz . Weeks after starring in the play, in November 1940, Anderson signed a contract with Warner Bros. He made more than 120 appearances, mostly in television and several films between 1941 and 1969. He made three guest appearances on Perry Mason , including the role of murder victim Frank Anderson in the 1958 episode, "The Case of

540-445: The position of physician-general with a pay of £2500 a year. Interested in medicinal plants and horticulture, he set up a botanical garden at Mambalam (or Marmalong) where Anderson introduced mulberry trees , bastard cedar ( Guazuma ulmifolia ), and experimented with making silk and lac. He introduced apple trees also, and sought to produce local cochineal for which he established an Opuntia garden or nopalry. He wrote on

567-408: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Anderson&oldid=1246902475 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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594-409: The system of plague-related quarantine at Ennore for ships bound to Madras. He promoted the use of vaccinations in the prevention of smallpox and for which he may have participated in a scheme to dupe Indians to believe that vaccination was an ancient Indian practice and therefore more acceptable. Scholar F.W. Ellis is thought to have created a Sanskrit verse that purportedly described the vaccine and

621-544: The willies and we were all intimidated by him". James Anderson (botanist) James Anderson (17 January 1738–6 August 1809 ) was a Scottish physician and botanist who worked in India as an employee of the East India Company . During his career in India, he was involved in establishing a botanical garden at Mambalam, Madras, originating from a nopalry or Opuntia garden where he made attempts to introduce

648-540: Was born on 17 January 1738 in Long Hermiston , west of Edinburgh , the son of surgeon Andrew Anderson and Magdalen Sandilands, daughter of Walter 6th Lord Torphichen. He was educated at Ratho school, where his friend James Anderson (1739-1808) who founded the journal, The Bee , also went to, before studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh where his teachers included Professor William Cullen . Anderson became an East India Company naval surgeon in 1759, and

675-564: Was present during the Siege of Manila in 1763. He settled in the Madras Presidency in 1765 living mainly in Vellore until 1771 and became Surgeon at Madras in 1772 following the death of Samuel Scott. In 1780 he became Surgeon Major (with a salary of 100 pagodas a month), surgeon-general of Madras in 1781, and served as the president of the Madras Medical Board founded in 1786, and ultimately held

702-424: Was produced a year in India and it increased in 1798 and rewards were offered for establishing "true" cochineal in India. True cochineal Dactylopius coccus was not introduced to India during Anderson's lifetime, the species introduced from Brazil was likely Dactylopius ceylonicus which has a greater production of wax filaments. Anderson's nopalry was heavily damaged in the cyclone of 1807 and overgrown in 1808 when

729-401: Was proposed as Chloeoon by Anderson in 1788 with the type species being Chloeoon choromandelensis . Anderson sent samples to Banks and in the meantime he learned from other correspondents that true cochineal grew only on Opuntia . At that time cochineal imports into Britain were about 200000 pounds per annum and the court of the East India Company was immediately interested. Banks identified

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