Peter Maltitz Anderson (30 September 1879, in Heilbron, Orange Free State – 5 November 1954)Selections from the Smuts Papers: Volume VII, August 1945-October 1950 By Jean van der Poel p371 was a South African mining engineer.
He was president of the South African Chamber of Mines in 1925, 1930, 1933, 1937 and 1940/1.
Union Corporation He was managing director of the Union Corporation Ltd.
Personal life He received an honorary Doctorate of Science in Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1930. He was married to Annie-Laurie Hamilton and had three children, Colin, Peter and Adrienne, until her death in 1918. He married again to Evelyn Elizabeth Anderson (née Gatheral) and had two children, Russell and Stephen. He named the town of Evander after her.
Anderson died in Johannesburg.
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