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'''George William Anderson''' (1791 – 12 March 1857<ref name="idob"/>) was the officiating governor of [[Bombay]] during the [[British Raj]] from 28 April 1841 to 9 June 1842.

Anderson entered the Bombay Civil Service in 1806. He was responsible for drawing up the Bombay Civil Code of 1827 and served as a judge in the [[Sadr Diwani Adalat|Sadr Diwani]] and [[Sadr Faujdari Adalat|Sadr Faujdari]] courts. In 1838, he was named to the [[Law Commission of India|Indian Law Commission]] and from 1843 to 1846 was President of the [[Asiatic Society of Mumbai|Bombay Branch]] of the [[Royal Asiatic Society]]. He was knighted in 1849.<ref name="idob">{{cite dictionary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8AKI2nqPBQC&pg=PA13 |page=13 |title=Sir George William Anderson |encyclopedia=Dictionary of Indian Biography |year=1971 |publisher=Haskell House Publishers |access-date=2011-08-06}}</ref>

He was 7th [[Governor of British Mauritius|Governor of Mauritius]] from 8 June 1849 until 19 October 1850,<ref>[http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Mauritius.htm Mauritius] {{webarchive |url=https://www.webcitation.org/5hOqWZAh1?url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Mauritius.htm |date=2009-06-09 }} World Statesmen.org</ref> when he was appointed governor of Ceylon, following the harsh suppression of the 1848 civil uprising by the previous office holder, [[7th Viscount Torrington|Viscount Torrington]].<ref>Katherine Prior, ‘[[Anderson, Sir George William]] (1791–1857)’, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], Oxford University Press, 2004</ref> He resigned in 1855.<ref name="idob"/>

==References==
*{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3VQTAAAAYAAJ |title=The India list and India Office list |author=Great Britain. India Office |publisher=Harrison |year=1919}}
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