Robert Andrews (translator)

[2] He was descended from an eminent nonconformist family which had lived for nearly two centuries at Little Lever and at Rivington Hall, near Bolton, Lancashire.

He continued to hold this charge till about 1753, when he became minister of Platt Chapel, a place of worship for Protestant dissenters in Rusholme, Lancashire.

The work for which Andrews is remembered, his Virgil Englished, was published in the year of his death, 1766.

He describes Virgil as inspiring a spirit of liberty that finds perfection ‘under the inviolable authority of a British King and Parliament’.

[5] In the same year, Baskerville also reprinted Andrews' Odes in a Quarto edition, dedicated to Charles Yorke.