Matthew Anderson, Crown Solicitor for County Dublin, was a distinguished elder in the Presbyterian Church of Ireland and a leading participant in the Fenian State Trials of the 1860s. Over the course of his legal career, he formed partnerships with Robert Campbell Lee, Sir William Findlater and Francis Bland. His son Sir Samuel Lee Anderson ran an unofficial secret service in Ireland. Another son Sir Robert Anderson headed up the Criminal Investigation Department at London’s Scotland Yard during the infamous Jack the Ripper murders.
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