ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (153o-1605), English law yer, descended from a Scottish family settled in Lincolnshire, was born in 1530 at Flixborough or Broughton in that county. He took part in all the leading state trials which agitated England during the latter years of Elizabeth's reign. Though a great law yer and thoroughly impartial in civil cases, he was notorious for his excessive severity and harshness when presiding over the trials of catholics and nonconformists ; especially in those of Sir John Perrot, Sir Walter Raleigh, and John Udall the puritan minister. Anderson was also one of the commissioners appointed to try Mary queen of Scots in 1586. He died on Aug. 1, 1605, at Eyworth, Bedfordshire.