Born 22 June 1858, third son of Frederick Andrews, draper, of Tattenhall, Wolverhampton and his wife, *née* Lowe. He was educated at Malvern College and at the London Hospital, where he served as resident accoucheur, house surgeon, and house physician, and as ophthalmological clinical assistant. He was subsequently senior house surgeon at Poplar Hospital and clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields), and became a member of the Ophthalmological and Hunterian Societies. He then settled at Manchester where he was appointed junior anaesthetist at the Royal Infirmary, and practised at Carlton House, Mosslane East, in partnership with Sir William Coates, KCB, FRCS and C J Dabbs, MRCS 1883. Andrews died, unmarried, on 19 December 1943 at 28 Blundell Drive, Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire, aged 85, and was buried at Birkdale cemetery. He had been living at Birkdale since his retirement more than twenty years before.