Tempest Anderson

Tempest Anderson was a British ophthalmic surgeon at York County Hospital who lived from 1846 to 1913. Beyond his medical work he became an expert amateur photographer and a volcanologist. He was a member of the Royal Society Commission appointed to investigate the aftermath of the May 1902 eruptions of La Soufriere on St Vincent and Mont Pelee on Martinique in the West Indies. Some of his photographs of those eruptions were later published in his book Volcanic Studies in Many Lands. His career shows a provincial hospital surgeon whose interests in photography and volcanoes brought him into the scientific investigation of two of the great volcanic disasters of the early twentieth century.