Gerrard Andrewes was an English churchman, Dean of Canterbury

Dean of Canterbury

The Dean of Canterbury is the head of the Chapter of the Cathedral of Christ Church, Canterbury, England. The office of dean originated after the English Reformation, and its precursor office was the prior of the cathedral-monastery...

 from 1809.

Life

He was the son of Gerrard Andrewes, vicar of Syston

Syston

Syston is a town and civil parish in the district of Charnwood in Leicestershire, England. The population is 11,508 as of the 2001 Census.-Overview:...

 and St. Nicholas, Leicester

Leicester

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, and master of the Leicester Grammar School

Leicester Grammar School

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. The younger Gerrard was born at Leicester 3 April 1750, and educated at Westminster School

Westminster School

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. He was elected to a Westminster scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

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, took his B.A. degree in 1773, M.A. 1779, and D.D. 1807. From 1771 to 1784 he worked as an usher at Westminster School.

He became occasional preacher at St Bride's Church

St Bride's Church

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, and afterwards at St. James's, in the Hampstead Road. In 1788 an old pupil, George Barrington, gave him the living of Zeal Monachorum

Zeal Monachorum

Zeal Monachorum is a village and civil parish in the Mid Devon district of Devon, England, about north-west of Exeter, situated on the River Yeo...

, in Devon

Devon

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. In 1791 he became preacher at the Magdalen Hospital, and in 1799 at the Foundling Hospital

Foundling Hospital

The Foundling Hospital in London, England was founded in 1741 by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram. It was a children's home established for the "education and maintenance of exposed and deserted young children." The word "hospital" was used in a more general sense than it is today, simply...

. Lady Talbot admired his sermons, and presented him in 1800 to the living of Mickleham

Mickleham

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, Surrey

Surrey

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, to which he was again presented in 1802 after resigning it upon his collation by Bishop Beilby Porteus

Beilby Porteus

Beilby Porteus , successively Bishop of Chester and of London was an Anglican reformer and leading abolitionist in England...

 to St. James's, Piccadilly.

In 1809 he gave up Mickleham on his appointment by Spencer Perceval

Spencer Perceval

Spencer Perceval, KC was a British statesman and First Lord of the Treasury, making him de facto Prime Minister. He is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated...

 to the deanery of Canterbury. In 1812 he declined an offer of the bishopric of Chester on the plea of advancing years. He died 2 June 1825 at the rectory of Piccadilly, and was buried at Great Bookham

Great Bookham

-Today:The village has a high street, located in Great Bookham, which is, as its name suggests, the larger of the two villages. It has two butchers, a family run fishmongers and two traditional greengrocers...

, Surrey. His only publications are sermons.

Family

On 1 December 1788 he married Elizabeth Maria, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Bale, by whom he had three daughters and a son, who married the daughter of William Heberden the Younger

William Heberden the Younger

William Heberden the Younger was a British physician.He was born in London the son of the medical doctor William Heberden the Elder and his wife Mary Wollaston...

.