Robert Andrews (civil servant) explained

Robert Andrews
Office:	Resident and Superintendent of British Ceylon
Term Start:	12 February 1796
Term End:	12 October 1798
Predecessor:	Pierre Frédéric de Meuron (as Military Governor of British Ceylon)
Successor:	Frederick North (as Governor of British Ceylon)

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]

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: List Of Inscriptions On Tombs Or Monuments Madras Vol 2 (Cotton). Internet Archive. 270–1. 9 February 2015.
2. Book: 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. 131–141. University of Leiden. Utrecht. Full record and text
3. Web site: Sri Lanka. Rulers.org. 20 June 2013.
4. Book: Lennox A Mills. Ceylon Under British Rule, 1795–1932. 12 November 2012. Routledge. 978-1-136-26264-7. 5 note 2.
5. Book: The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australia. 1822. Parbury, Allen, and Company. 96–.