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ANDREW—ANDREWS—ANDROS—ANLEY.

ANDREW. (Lieutenant, 1838.)

Zaccheus Andrew was born 25 June, 1811.

This officer entered the Navy, 14 April, 1826, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Gloucester 74, Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton, and served the whole of his time in that ship, the Surly 10, Capt. Joseph Chappel Woolnough, Sappho 28, Capt. Henry Dundas, Windsor Castle 74, Capt. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, and San Josef 110, flag-ship of Sir Manley Dixon, on the Baltic, Lisbon, South America, and Home stations. Having passed his examination, 8 Dec. 1832, he next officiated as Mate, in the West Indies and oiff Lisbon, of the Rhadamanthus steamer, Capt. Geo. Evans, and Hastings 74, bearing the flag of Sir Wm. Hall Gage. As Lieutenant, a rank he attained 28 June, 1838, Mr. Andrew’s appointments were on the South America and Mediterranean stations – 28 Nov. in that year, to the Grecian 16, Capt. Wm. Smyth, and, 8 June, 1841, to the Vernon 90, Capt. Wm. Walpole. He has not since been employed. He married, 3 Oct. 1840, Jane, only daughter of Jas. Harvey, Esq., and has issue. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.



ANDREWS. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 11; h-p., 31.)

Benjamin Andrews was born, 28 Dec. 1794, in London.

This officer entered the Navy, 4 Oct. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Savage 16, Capts. Jas. Wilkes Maurice, Wm. Robilliard, and Wm. Perrie. During a servitude of more than five years in that sloop he assisted, as Midshipman, at the capture, in 1808, of the Spanish privateer Don Quixote, and was present at the reduction, in 1809-10, of the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe. After a further attachment to the Curieux 16, and Theseus 74, Capts. Colin Campbell and Wm. Prowse, in the latter of which ships we find him employed in escorting the East India trade, Mr. Andrews, about the end of 1813, became Master’s Mate of the Hebbus, of 42 guns and 284 men, Capt. Edm. Palmer, under whom, on 27 March, 1814, he commanded the forecastle guns, and received three severe contusions at the capture of the French frigate L’Etoile, of 44 guns and 315 men, which surrendered after a close and obstinate combat of two hours and a quarter, that cost the British a loss of 13 men killed and 25 wounded, and the enemy of 40 killed and 73 wounded. He afterwards, while in the same ship, assisted in landing a body of troops up the Patuxent, witnessed the destruction of Commodore Barney’s flotilla, and was further present at the re-embarkation of the army after the capture of Washington. In Nov. 1814, having been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 27 of the previous May, Mr. Andrews joined the Wasp 18, Capt. John Fisher, on the Halifax station, where he continued until Sept. 1815. He next, from 7 Nov. 1818, to 4 Feb. 1819, served in the Coast Blockade as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Severn 40, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, but since the latter date has been on half-pay.

He married 28 Aug. 1826. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.



ANDREWS. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 11; h-p., 33.)

Edward Andrews (b) was born in 1782.

This officer entered the Navy, 4 Oct. 1803, as Midshipman, on board the Musette 12, Lieut.Commanders Bevan, Dundas, and Simpson, on the Home station, where, in June, 1805, he joined the Beagle 18, Capts. Geo. Digby, Fras. Newoombe, and Wm. Brooking Dolling. While under Capt. Newcombe he assisted at the capture of the Hazard, Vengeur, and Fortune, privateers, carrying altogether 44 guns and 155 men; bore a warm part in the destruction of the French shipping in Basque Roads, 11 April, 1809; and accompanied the ensuing expedition to Flushing. In the early part of 1811 he was thrice recommended for promotion by his Captain for his gallant conduct on as many different occasions: the first time, in consideration of his having with a detached party captured three smuggling-boats, after he had landed and had desperately fought their crews, although supported by a body of French soldiers; secondly, for the spirited manner in which, with a single boat, he had compelled two sloops to run on shore near Boulogne; and next, for having in a similar manner chased and put to flight an enemy’s privateer. On another occasion Mr. Andrews, with but one boat again under his orders, and within sight of the French shore, effected the capture, in the handsomest manner, of two other smuggling-vessels. His exertions were at length rewarded with a commission, dated 20 July, 1811; after which he appears to have served, from Jan. 1812, to Jan. 1815, on board the Comet sloop, Capts. Wm. Shepheard and Geo. Wm. Blainey, on the Newfoundland, West India, and Mediterranean stations. He has not since been afloat.

Lieut. Andrews married, in 1815, Miss Mary Rowse Brooking, by whom he has issue ten children.



ANDROS. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 12; h-p., 29.)

Charles Andros entered the Navy, 19 Aug. 1806, as Second-cl. Vol., on board the Canopus 80, Capt. Thos. Geo. Shortland, bearing the flags in succession of Rear-Admirals Sir Thos. Louis and Geo. Martin, under the former of whom he witnessed the capture, 27 Sept. 1806, of Le President, French frigate of 44 guns, and was present in the Constantinople and Egyptian expeditions of 1807. During a subsequent attachment of two years with Capt. Jahleel Brenton to the Spartan, of 46 guns and 258 men, he assisted in an attack made in company with the Mercury 28, on Pesaro and Ceseratrio, where the fortifications were destroyed and 25 sail of merchantmen captured; witnessed the ensuing surrender of the garrison of the island of Lossini; and co-operated in the reduction of Zante, Cephalonia, and Cerigo. On 3 May, 1810, Mr. Andros further participated in a brilliant victory gained by the Spartan in the Bay of Naples over a Franco-Neapolitan squadron, carrying in the whole 95 guns and about 1400 men, on which occasion the British lost 10 men killed and 22 wounded, and the enemy about 41 killed and 90 wounded. After that event he successively joined the Inconstant 36, Capt. John Quilliam, Victory 100, flag-ship of Sir Jas. Saumarez, Dictator 64, Capt. John Pattison Stewart, and Scarborough 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral John Ferrier. While in the Dictator, on the Baltic station, we find Mr. Andros serving in the boats of that ship at the cutting out of a Danish lugger; and, on 6 July, 1812, assisting, in company with the Calypso 18, at the capture and destruction, within the rocks of Mardoe, on the coast of Norway, of an entire Danish squadron, consisting of the Nayaden, of 48 guns, the Laland, Samsoe, and Kiel sloops, and several gunboats, after a long conflict, which cost the Dictator a loss of 5 men killed and 24 wounded, and the enemy of 300 killed and wounded. He was ultimately confirmed to a Lieutenancy, 9 Aug. 1814, in the Rhin 38, Capt. Chas. Malcolm, on the West India station, and was afterwards appointed in succession to the Bustard, Capt. Lord John Hay, and Perseus 22, Capts. Edw. Henry A’Court, Thos. Huskisson, and Thos. Rich. Toker, employed on the Home station. With the exception of a three years’ attachment, from April, 1824, to April, 1827, to the Britannia 120, flag-ship at Plymouth of Sir Jas. Saumarez, Mr. Andros has been on half-pay since 11 July, 1816.

He married, 28 Oct. 1830, Mary, second daughter of Thos. Godfrey Dobree, Esq.



ANLEY. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 32.)

William Anley entered the Navy, 19 Nov. 1807, as Midshipman, on board the Neptune 98, Capts. Sir Thos. Williams and Chas. Dilkes, flag-ship afterwards of Sir Alex. Cochrane, in which he assisted at the capture, in Feb. and April, 1809, of the island of Martinique, and of the French 74-gun ship D’Haupoult. After serving for some time with Sir Alex. Cochrane in the Pompée 74, and Statira 38, and co-operating in the reduction of