Peter Anker
Peter Anker was a Norwegian diplomat, military officer and colonial general.Biography
He was born in Fredrikshald, Norway as a son of Erik Ancher and Anne Cathrine Tank. He was a brother of Carsten Tank Anker, and changed his surname from Ancher to Anker in 1778. He did not marry.
He held the military rank of Major General, but was best known as a colonial governor for Denmark–Norway. He was the country's consul in Kingston upon Hull from 1773 to 1776. Anker was appointed Governor-general of the Danish colony at Tranquebar from 1786 to 1808. While there he collected local art and made a series of drawing and painting which are now in the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Oslo.
He was appointed a knight in the Order of the Dannebrog in 1804.
In 1814 he participated in the Meeting of Notables which preceded the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
He died in April 1832 at Aker, Norway.
