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Sir John Anderson was born on January 23, 1858, in Gartly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

He was a Scottish colonial administrator. He graduated from Aberdeen University (M.A.) and entered the Colonial Office as a second-class clerk. In 1887, he was Bacon Scholar of Gray's Inn and the following year, he was the Inns of Court student. Anderson was appointed as the private secretary to Sir Robert Meade, Permanent Under-Secretary of the State for the Colonies, and in 1892, he served as the British Agent for Bering Sea Arbitration. From 1883 to 1897, he edited the Colonial Office List and was appointed as the principal clerk. In 1899, he was dispatched to Gibraltar, and the same year, he returned to London, where he remained until 1901. In 1902, he acted as the secretary to the Colonial Conference. In 1903, he received thanks from the Canadian Government and the Confederation medal for services rendered in connection with the Alaska Boundary question and other matters. In 1904, Anderson was appointed Governor of Straits Settlements, where he served till 1911. In 1916, he became Governor of British Ceylon. In Ceylon, he played an important role in settling many problems and riots that started in 1915 and were suppressed harshly by the British. He was appointed as a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) in 1898 and a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (KCMG) in 1901. In 1906, he was awarded an LL.D. from his former alma mater.

He suddenly fell ill and died on March 24, 1918, in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).

Composer Leroy Anderson’s Swedish parents recognized his musical ability at an early age – he wrote his first composition at the age of 12 -- and enrolled him at the New England Conservatory of Music. Having been born and grown up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he attended Harvard University, receiving his B.A. in 1929 (magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) and an M.A in music in 1930. He began work for a Ph.D. at Harvard in German and Scandinavian languages, intending to become a teacher of languages (he was fluent in more than 9), a career he thought would be more secure than that of a musician. While pursuing his studies, he worked as a church organist and choirmaster as well as the leader of the Harvard Band in which he played the trombone, one of several instruments he played. He had caught the attention of Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, and in 1938 the Pops first played one of his compositions, Jazz Pizzicata. When World War II intervened and he married Eleanor Jane Firke in 1942 just before shipping off to Iceland for the U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps as a translator and interpreter (Icelandic was one of his many languages). The following year he was sent to officer’s candidate school, and in 1945 he was reassigned to the Pentagon as chief of the Scandinavian Desk of Military Intelligence. He and his wife and new baby daughter moved to Arlington, Virginia; with the end of the war, in 1946 they moved to New York City, then later to Woodbury, Connecticut, where he spent the rest of his life at his “Grassy Hill” property. Having scored his first hit in 1951 with “Blue Tango,” he landed a contract with Decca Records; his works were a big commercial success throughout the 1950s. From 1946 to 1975, he conducted more than 70 concerts. In 1972, the Boston Pops devoted a concert to him as a tribute. For his contribution to the recording business, he has a “star” on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and he was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame in 1988. The Harvard Band named its new headquarters after him in 1995: the Leroy Anderson Band Center. The town of Cambridge named a square after him in 2003.

Maureen Anderson, a close personal friend of John Schreiber, was for forty years the Administrative Assistant at the McGill School of Architecture.

Reid Anderson was born on October 15, 1970.

He is a bassist and composer from Minnesota. He is a member of The Bad Plus with drummer Dave King, saxophonist Chris Speed, and guitarist Ben Monder. The original lineup of The Bad Plus first played together in 1989 and formally established the band in 2000. Anderson attended the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music.

Stig Erik Leopold or “Stikkan” Anderson, best known as the manager of the pop group ABBA, was born to an impoverished single mother in the small Swedish town of Hova. He left school at the age of 15 and took enough night-school classes to get a job as a primary-school teacher. It was music, however, that attracted him, and in 1951, at age 16, he wrote his first song and began a career in music: song-writing, producing, publishing and managing. He soon co-founded Polar Music with a friend and the company’s first signing was with the “Hootenanny Singers,” featuring Björn Ulvaeus, who was destined to play a big role in his career. In 1959 he had a breakthrough with the hit song “Are you still in Love with Me, Klas-Goran?” During the late 1960s, he became one of Sweden’s most productive song-writers. His managing career also flourished as he added Benny Anderson to his clients, as the popular ABBA group was forming, then Björn and Benny’s girlfriends, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Fältskog. He co-wrote a number of the ABBA songs, including the Eurovison prizewinner, Waterloo, and was part owner of ABBA’s record label and publishing company. When the group broke up, however, there were questions of mismanagement, bad investments and questionable contracts, and Björn, Benny and Agnetha sued him but settled out of court in 1991. In 1989, he sold Polar Records and made a major contribution toward founding the Polar Music Prize which made its first award in1992. Alcoholism had taken a toll on his health, however, and he died of a heart attack at the age of 66.