Theophilus Andrews was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons

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 in 1659.

Andrews was possibly the son of Richard Andrews, Mayor of Evesham 1624. He was sometime of Barnard's Inn

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 and was admitted to Gray's Inn

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 on 7 November 1644. He was called to the bar on 11 February 1651. In 1656 he was appointed Commissioner for Assessment for Wocestershire. In 1659 he was an Alderman of Evesham and was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Evesham

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 in the Third Protectorate Parliament

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. He was re-elected MP for Evesham in 1660 for the Convention Parliament in a double return and was unseated on 12 July 1660. He became a J.P.

Justice of the Peace

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for Worcestershire on 10 July 1660 and was residing at Offingham. He became recorder of Evesham, probably in 1661.

Andrews died in 1670 at the age of 47.