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.