However, he won a bursary to attend the former Hamilton Academy then a famous fee-paying school.

They were established in 1874 from the school football team at Hamilton Academy.

At the age of eleven he was selected to attend the Hamilton Academy.

They were first set up in 1874 from Hamilton Academy.

Hamilton Academy continued at the 'new' Academy building from 1913 to 1972 when it ceased to exist as an independent institution.

Hamilton Academy was a senior and junior fee-paying day and boarding school.

Given the size of the school's catchment area, places at Hamilton Academy were at a premium.

The Hamilton Academy 'prep' (junior) school continued to operate until 1952.

The building remained in the school's use until 1848 when, as now the Hamilton Academy, the school relocated to a further purpose-built building.

Anderson was listed among notable former pupils of Hamilton Academy in a 1950 magazine article on the school.