Editing Robert Rowand Anderson (section)

{{short description|Scottish architect}}
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{{Infobox architect
|name                 = Robert Rowand Anderson
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|image                = Robert Rowand Anderson by John M Aiken.jpg
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|caption              = Anderson by John M. Aiken
|birth_date           = 5 April 1834
|birth_place          = [[Liberton, Scotland|Liberton]], Scotland
|death_date           = {{death date and age|1921|6|1|1834|5|4|df=yes}}
|death_place          = [[Colinton]], Scotland
|alma_matter          = 
|practice             = 
|significant_buildings= [[Grand Central Hotel (Glasgow)|Grand Central Hotel]], Glasgow<br />McEwen Hall, Edinburgh
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}}

[[File:Robert Rowand Anderson by James Pittendrigh Macgillivray, SNPG.JPG|thumb|260px|Robert Rowand Anderson by [[James Pittendrigh Macgillivray]] 1921]]
[[File:McEwan Hall, Edinburgh.JPG|thumb|260px|McEwan Hall, Edinburgh, by Rowand Anderson]]
[[Image:Rowand Anderson Central Hotel.jpg|thumb|right|260px|The [[Central Hotel (Glasgow)|Central Hotel]] at [[Glasgow Central railway station|Glasgow Central station]]]]
'''Sir Robert Rowand Anderson''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSE|RSA}} (5 April 1834 – 1 June 1921) was a Scottish [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] architect. Anderson trained in the office of [[George Gilbert Scott]] in London before setting up his own practice in [[Edinburgh]] in 1860. During the 1860s his main work was small churches in the 'First Pointed' (or Early English) style that is characteristic of Scott's former assistants. By 1880 his practice was designing some of the most prestigious public and private buildings in Scotland.

His works include the [[Scottish National Portrait Gallery]]; the Dome of Old College, Medical Faculty and McEwan Hall, the [[University of Edinburgh]]; [[Govan Old Parish Church]] and the Pearce Institute; the [[Central Hotel (Glasgow)|Central Hotel]] at [[Glasgow Central railway station|Glasgow Central Station]], the [[Mansfield Place Church|Catholic Apostolic Church]] in Edinburgh and [[Mount Stuart House]] on the Isle of Bute for the [[John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute|3rd Marquess of Bute]].