Robert Andrews (Resident)

Robert Andrews
Resident and Superintendent of British Ceylon
In office 12 February 1796 – 12 October 1798
Monarch	George III
Preceded by	Pierre Frédéric de Meuron (as Military Governor of British Ceylon)
Succeeded by	Frederick North (as Governor of British Ceylon)

Robert Andrews (died 13 November 1821, at age 58)^[1] was the Resident and Superintendent of British Ceylon.^[2] He was appointed on 12 February 1796 and was Resident until 12 October 1798. He was succeeded by Frederick North as Governor of British Ceylon.^[3]

Andrews was in the East India Company, in the Madras Civil Service, from 1778, and became Collector of Trinchinopoli.^[4] He was Senior Judge of Appeal, in the Madras Presidency.^[5]

References

1. "List Of Inscriptions On Tombs Or Monuments Madras Vol 2 (Cotton)". Internet Archive. pp. 270–1. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
2. Schrikker, Alicia Frederika (2006). "Chapter 7: Regime Change and Transitional Politics (1795–1798)". Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka c. 1780–1815: Expansion and Reform (PDF). Utrecht: University of Leiden. pp. 131–141. Full record and text
3. "Sri Lanka". Rulers.org. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
4. Lennox A Mills (12 November 2012). Ceylon Under British Rule, 1795–1932. Routledge. p. 5 note 2. ISBN 978-1-136-26264-7.
5. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australia. Parbury, Allen, and Company. 1822. pp. 96–.