John Andrews

Who was John Andrews?

John Andrews was a historical writer and pamphleteer.

Andrews produced numerous works. Among these are:

‘History of the Revolutions of Denmark,' &c., 1774.

'History of the War with America, France, Spain, and Holland, commencing in 1775 and ending in 1783,' four vols., London, 1785–86.

'Letters to his Excellency the Count de Welderen on the present Situation of Affairs between Great Britain and the United Provinces,' London, 1781.

'Letters to a Young Gentleman on his setting out for France, containing a survey of Paris and a review of French literature,' 1784.

'Historical Review of the Moral, Religious, Literary, and Political Character of the English Nation,' 1806.

The Gentleman's Magazine for February 1809 has the following obituary announcement: "At his house at Kennington, Surrey, in his seventy-third year, Dr. John Andrews, a gentleman well known in the literary world. By his death the nation is deprived of an able historian, a profound scholar and politician, and a man ever ready to take up his pen in his country's cause."