Anderson, JAMES

Anderson, JAMES, antiquary, was born at Edinburgh in 1662, and admitted a W.S. in 1691. In 1705, two years before the Union, he published a treatise vindicating the independence of Scotland, and impugning Harding's forged charters; thenceforward, to the close of his unhappy life, he was constantly employed on his Selectus Diplomatum et Numismatum Scotiae Thesaurus. He died in 1728, having just completed his magnum opus, which did not appear, however, till 1739.