Life
Andrews' roots lay in Jamaica and in London, but from the 1820s he was mainly in York.
He won a Society of Arts premium in 1824.He was a council member of the Yorkshire Architectural Society,and Sheriff of York in 1846-47, during George Hudson's third term as mayor.
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