Robert_Andrews_(Resident)

Robert Andrews (civil servant)

Robert Andrews (civil servant)

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Robert Andrews (born c. 1763; died 13 November 1821, at age 58)[1] was the Resident and Superintendent of British Ceylon.[2] He was appointed on 12 February 1796 and was Resident until 12 October 1798. He was succeeded by Frederick North as Governor of British Ceylon.[3]

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Andrews was in the East India Company, in the Madras Civil Service, from 1778, and became Collector of Trinchinopoli.[4] He was Senior Judge of Appeal, in the Madras Presidency.[5]

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    "List Of Inscriptions On Tombs Or Monuments Madras Vol 2 (Cotton)". Internet Archive. pp. 270–1. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
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    Schrikker, Alicia Frederika (2006). "Chapter 7: Regime Change and Transitional Politics (1795–1798)". Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka c. 1780–1815: Expansion and Reform (PDF). Utrecht: University of Leiden. pp. 131–141. Full record and text
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    "Sri Lanka". Rulers.org. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
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    Lennox A Mills (12 November 2012). Ceylon Under British Rule, 1795–1932. Routledge. p. 5 note 2. ISBN 978-1-136-26264-7.
  5. [5]
    The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australia. Parbury, Allen, and Company. 1822. pp. 96–.
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