Name

Iliffe Gordon Anderson

Other names

ANDERSON, I.G.

ANDERSON, Ian Gordon

Culture

Australian

Gender

Male

Birth date

1890

Birth place

South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia View on map Close map

Death date

1 August 1963

Death Place

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia View on map Close map

Active

by 1946

Occupations

Architect | Artist (water-colouristist)

Summary

Alderman. Worked: Australia (VIC, TAS).

Context

Australia

Biography

I. G. Anderson spent many years living in Geelong, where he most likely grew up, married and had a family, and later lived in Melbourne.

During the war, he was the architect for the American army, mainly redesigning buildings for weapons storage. He was well known to General Douglas MacArthur.

He moved to Hobart with his wife in the late 1940s, where he worked as an architect, mainly designing hotels and motels. In Hobart he was also well known as an artist and as an alderman.

He designed the Hobart Coat of Arms.

[information courtesy of Jill Smith, 28 October 2010]