Cecil Rollo Payton Andrews (2 February 1870 – 13 June 1951) was an English educator, botanist and collector who was born in London in 1870 and died in Surrey in 1951.
He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford and graduated with second-class honours in humanities and classics and in 1892 .
[1] Most of his adult working life was spent in Western Australia where he arrived in 1901 and was employed as the principal of Claremont Teachers College and later as the Director of Education and then as the Pro-Chancellor of the University of Western Australia.
[2] During his time in Australia he collected and described several species of plant including some Acacias.
[2] Cecil Andrews College in south-east suburban Perth is named after Andrews.