Early Life
Charles Freer Andrews was born on 12 February 1871 at 14 Brunel Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. His father was a minister in the Catholic Apostolic Church in Birmingham, but the family had suffered from a financial misfortune because of the duplicity of a friend, and had to work hard to make ends meet. Andrews studied at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and afterwards began studying Classics at Pembroke College, Cambridge. During this period he moved away from the views of his family's church and was accepted for ordination in the Church of England.
In 1896 Andrews became a deacon, and took over the Pembroke College Mission in south London. A year later he became a priest, and became Vice-Principal of Westcott House Theological College in Cambridge.
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