John Constable (1776-1837) - The Revd Dr James Andrew - N05965 - Tate

John Constable (1776-1837) - Mrs James Andrew - N05966 - National Gallery

James Andrew, LL.D. (1774?–13 June 1833), was the principal of the East India Company's Military Seminary at Addiscombe, Surrey from 1809 to 1822. Andrew was from Scotland, and received his education at Aberdeen. He attended Marischal College, gaining an MA in 1792. He established a successful private military academy at Woolwich Common which prepared pupils for the

Royal Military Academy, Woolwich The Royal Military Academy (RMA) at Woolwich, in south-east London, was a British Army military academy for the training of commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. It later also trained officers of the Royal Corps of Sig ...

. In 1809 the East India Company purchased Addiscombe Place, near Croydon, to be its military seminary, training cadets for its private army in India. Andrew was appointed headmaster and Professor of Mathematics. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March, 1821. The terms of his contract allowed him to accrue large profits from the cadets' fees: following criticism, the system was changed at his request in 1821. He retired in August 1822 and died at Edinburgh on 13 June 1833. Andrew was the author of ''Astronomical and Nautical Tables'' (1805); ''Institutes of Grammar and Chronological Tables'' (1817); ''Key to Scriptural Chronology'' (1822); and ''Hebrew Grammar and Dictionary without Points'' (1823). The copy of this book in the British Library belonged to the Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, and contains an autograph letter of Andrew.

Family

James Andrew was baptised on 24 December 1774 at

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, Aberdeen. His parents are recorded as James Andrew and Jean Low. James Andrew and Jean Lowe were married on 2 May 1771 at Inverkeithny, Banff. Jean Low was baptised at Inverkeithny on 9 May 1746. Her parents are recorded as Gavin Low and Margaret Alexander. He married Jane Falding, of Lewisham, on 21 February 1809 at

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, now in the

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. His address is given as Woolwich, Kent. In ''Astronomical and Nautical Tables'' James Andrew credits his uncle, Gavin Lowe of

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, "to whom I am indebted for a complete Table of Formulæ for reducing Time out of one denomination to another...". In his will of 1812, Gavin Lowe, "of the Parish of St Mary, Islington", appointed "my dear nephew Doctor James Andrew of Addiscombe" as his executor. After stating that his books and mathematical and optical instruments are to be sold, Gavin Lowe bequeathed his chronometer to James Andrew. Gavin Lowe, of Paradise Row, Islington, died in 1815, aged 72.London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003 (Ancestry Library Edition)

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*Andrew, James,
Astronomical and Nautical Tables
', London, T. Plummer, 1805.
The Revd Dr James Andrew
by John Constable, 1818, Tate Gallery.
Mrs James Andrew
ane Faldingby John Constable, 1818, Tate Gallery. {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrew, James 1770s births 1833 deaths 18th-century Scottish writers 19th-century Scottish writers British East India Company civil servants Fellows of the Royal Society Alumni of the University of Aberdeen