John Andrews (historical writer)
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John Andrews (1736โ1809) was a historical writer and pamphleteer.
Works
Andrews produced numerous works. Among these are:[1]
- History of the Revolutions of Denmark, etc., 1774.
- History of War with America, France, Spain, and Holland, commencing in 1775 and ending in 1783, four vols., London, 1785โ86.
- Letters to his Excellency the Count de Welderen on the present Situation of Affairs between Great Britain and the United Provinces, London, 1781 (of which a Dutch translation appeared in the same year at Amsterdam).
- Letters to a Young Gentleman on his setting out for France, containing a survey of Paris and a review of French literature, 1784.
- Historical Review of the Moral, Religious, Literary, and Political Character of the English Nation, 1806.
The Gentleman's Magazine for February 1809 has the following obituary announcement: "At his house at Kennington, Surrey, in his seventy-third year, Dr. John Andrews, a gentleman well known in the literary world. By his death the nation is deprived of an able historian, a profound scholar and politician, and a man ever ready to take up his pen in his country's cause".[1]
Notes
- ^ a b Bullen 1885, p. 408.
References
Bullen, Arthur Henry (1885). Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 408.
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