Dummer Andrews 1692/3-1761

Dummer ANDREWS 1692/3-1761

Andrews's bookplate (British Museum Franks Collection 525)

Biographical Note

Son of Robert Andrews of Swathling, Hampshire. BA Queen's College, Oxford 1713, MA 1716; vicar of Hound, Hampshire 1720.

Books

Andrews used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 525). The extent of his library is not known; in his will, he directed that his books should not be sold, but "kept for the use of the family" at the discretion of his sister Susannah.

Sources

• Will of Dummer Andrews, The National Archives PROB 11/862/364.
• Foster, J., Alumni Oxonienses, Oxford, 1891.
• Gambier Howe, E. R. J., Franks bequest. Catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed ... by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, London, 1903-4.