Tempest Anderson

Tempest Anderson (December 7, 1846 – August 26, 1913) was an ophthalmic surgeon at York County Hospital in the United Kingdom. He was also an expert amateur photographer and vulcanologist. He was a member of the Royal Society Commission which was appointed to investigate the aftermath of the eruptions of Soufriere volcano, St Vincent and Mont Pelee, Martinique, West Indies which both erupted in May, 1902. Some of his photographs of these eruptions were subsequently published in his book, Volcanic Studies

He was born in York, and died on board ship on the Red Sea while returning from visiting the volcanoes of Indonesia and the Philippines. He was buried in Suez, Egypt.

In 1904 Anderson received an honorary degree of D.Sc. from the University of Leeds. He was President of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, and in 1912 he presented the society with a 300-seat lecture theatre (the Tempest Anderson Hall) attached to the Yorkshire Museum in York Museum Gardens. This was one of the world's first concrete buildings.

In 1910 Tempest Anderson was living at 17 Stonegate in the centre of York and decided to buy some land from the Holgate garden society, 1 1/2m west of the city walls. He was to build a pair of semi's on the road that is now known as Moorgate. It is not known whether these were for himself to live in or as a small property development business. However, he was to die in 1913 and so he left these properties to his cousin, a Fearnley Anderson. He lived in Hampstead, London and was a colonel in the army.