Sir Edmund Anderson (1530 – August 1, 1605), Lord Chief-Justice of Common Pleas under Elizabeth I, sat as judge at the trial of Mary I of Scotland. Events 30 BC - Octavian (later known as Augustus enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman
He was born in Flixborough in Lincolnshire c. North Lincolnshire village of Flixborough is situated near to the River Trent, about 3 miles (5 km north-west of Scunthorpe at. Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the east of England. 1530 and is said to have spent a brief period at Lincoln College, Oxford, before entering the Inner Temple in June 1550. Lincoln College (in full The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice in London which may call members to
In 1577, Anderson was created Serjeant-at-Law and in 1578 he was appointed Queen's Sergeant. Serjeant-at-law ( postnominal SL) was an order of Barristers at the English or Irish bar. In 1581 he was appointed Justice of Assize on the Norfolk circuit and tried Edmund Campion and others in November 1581, securing an unexpected conviction. The Court of Assize, or Assizes, is a medieval term for Legal codes (such as Assizes of Jerusalem) that continues to be used in modern times Saint Edmund Campion SJ ( January 24 1540 &ndash December 1 1581) was an English Jesuit priest
On the back of that success, Anderson was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1582 and was knighted. Prior to 1880, the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas (also known as the Chief Justice of the Common Bench) was one of the highest judicial officials He was reappointed by James VI and I and held office until his death. James VI and I (19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625 was King of Scotland as James VI, and King of England and King of Ireland as James
Anderson became lord of the parish of Eyeworth in Bedfordshire and his family remained the local gentry for many generations. Eyeworth (also Eyworth) is a village in east Bedfordshire in the United Kingdom around 5 miles north east of Biggleswade. Bedfordshire (abbreviated Beds) is a County in England that forms part of the East of England region. All Saints Church in Eyeworth contains a number of impressive brasses and monuments to Anderson and his wife, Magdalen Smyth. [1]
Anderson's Reports is still a book of authority.
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