Joseph Anderson (Commandant)
Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Anderson CB KH (1 July 1790 in Keoldale, Sutherland, Scotland – 18 July 1877), soldier and penal administrator, of the 50th Regiment, was commandant of the second convict settlement at Norfolk Island, from March 1834 to February 1839.
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