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Andrewes, Gerrard, 1750-1825
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1750-1825
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ANDREWES, GERRARD, son of Gerrard Andrewes (qv); b. 14 Apr 1750; adm. Jan 1764; KS 1764; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge (with Titley gratuity) 1769, adm. pens. 23 May 1769, scholar 4 May 1770, matr. Mich. 1769; BA 1773; MA 1776; DD 1807; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 4 Sep 1774, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1775; Usher at the School 1771 [check] - 84; ordained deacon (Peterborough) 15 Dec 1776; occasional preacher at St. Bride’s Fleet Street, and later at St. James’s Chapel, Hampstead Road; Rector of Zeal Monachorum, Devon 1788 [no longer 1801]; preacher at The Magdalene Hospital 1791, at The Foundling Hospital 1799; Rector of Mickleham, Surrey 1800-9; Rector of St. James’s, Piccadilly, London, from 10 Aug 1802; Dean of Canterbury from 8 Nov 1809; declined Bishopric of Chester on account of his age 1812; Vicar of Great Bookham, Surrey, from 1820; composed a school song entitled “Dean’s Yard and Queen Eliza” recited at the Anniversary Dinner of 1836 (Forshall, 255-7); among his cherished possessions was the jawbone of King Richard II, given to him by a schoolfellow who had fished it out of Richard’s tomb in 1766 (Archaeologia xlv, 304, note, and Elizabethan xvii, 99-100); four of his letters written while he was at school were published in The Treasury, ix, 131-6; m. 1 Dec 1788 Elizabeth Maria, dau. of Rev. Thomas Ball, Rector of Wymondham, Norfolk; d. 2 Jun 1825. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.