an English historian and miscellaneous writer, was the younger son of Joseph Andrews, Esq. of Shaw-house, near Newbury, Berks, where he was born in the year 1737. He was educated privately, and is said to have discovered an early taste for literature and the fine arts.

The most extensive work undertaken by Mr Andrews was his History of Great Britain, connected with the Chronology of Europe; with Notes, &c. The first volume, which commences with Caesar's invasion, and ends with the deposition and death of Richard II., was published in 1794, in 4to. A second volume, in which the history is continued from the deposition and death of Richard II. to the accession of Edward VI., appeared in 1795. The plan of this work is new, and in some respects singular; a certain portion of the history of England is given on one page, and a corresponding portion of the contemporaneous history of Europe on the one opposite. The notes consist of a variety of curious and amusing particulars, not immediately connected with the main story. Appendixes are also added at proper intervals, containing an account of the state of literature, science, religion, government, manners, &c., at different periods. The author, however, did not live to complete Andrews this curious and extensive work, no more of it having appeared than the two volumes above mentioned. In 1796 he published a continuation of Henry's History of Britain, in one volume 4to and two volumes 8vo, and died at Brompton the following year. He was the author of various other miscellaneous works.