John Andrews

Historical writer
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IntroHistorical writer
wasWriter Artist Printmaker
Work fieldArts Business Literature
Gender
Male
Birth1736
Death1809 (aged 73 years)
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Biography

John Andrews (1736–1809) was a historical writer and pamphleteer.

Works

Andrews produced numerous works. Among these are:

  • History of the Revolutions of Denmark, etc., 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 (of which a Dutch translation appeared in the same year at Amsterdam).
  • 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".

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