ANDERSON SIR KENNETH SKELTON 1866-1942 BT SHIPOWNER

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  • Reference
    • GB 97 COLL MISC 0513
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1919-1942c
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 2 boxes

Scope and Content

  • A report on shipping control during World War I (1914-1918), the work of the transport department and ministry of shipping up to the armistice
  • As above, Parts IV, V, VI.
  • Post-war shipping. Correspondence with Irvine Campbell Geddes (1882-1962), Director of Anderson Green and Co. Ltd, Orient Underwriting Co. Ltd, and OUC Investment Co. Ltd, 1940-1942.
  • The Post war problem. Correspondence with Sir Alan Anderson et al about war aims and the post war world from a conservative point of view. 1940-1941.
  • The Post war problem. See above, 1941-1942.

Administrative / Biographical History

Sir Kenneth Skelton Anderson 1866-1942

Anderson was educated at Harrow and New College, Oxford. Anderson was manager of the Orient Steam Navigation Company and Director of Anderson, Green & Co., ship owners; He was also the representative of British Ship owners at Imperial Navigation Conference, 1907; member of Departmental Committee on Royal College of Art, 1910, of Advisory Committee for Education in Art, and of Departmental Committee on Inshore Fisheries, 1913; Chairman General Ship owners Society, 1913; President Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, 1915; member of Committee on Detention of Neutral Ships, 1916, of Committee on National Scheme of Training for Sea Service, 1918, of Food Investigation Board, 1918, of Shipping Control Committee during the War, and of Imperial Shipping Committee.

Arrangement

Two boxes

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Acquisition Information

Anderson, Sir Colin

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