Andrew Cassels (1811 – 2 August 1886) was a British merchant who traded in India and England.
Born in an old Scottish family, his father resided for some years at Manchester, where he was an associate of John Peel, MP, head of Messers John Peel and Co.
[1] In 1843, Andrew Cassels opened for Peel a branch of the firm in Bombay, which eventually traded as Messers.
[1] He was also a director of the Metropolitan Railway Company and a long-serving chairman of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China.
[1] He was elected a director of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce in 1861, resigned in 1868 when he moved to London to sit on the Council of India, to which he was appointed through pressure from the Manchester Chamber of Commercial on Lord Salisbury, the Secretary of State for India.