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Biography of Edmund Andros, Sir
Name: Edmund Andros, Sir
Birth Date: December 6, 1637
Death Date: February 27, 1714
Place of Birth: London, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: colonial governor
Edmund Andros, Sir
Sir Edmund Andros (1637-1714), an English colonial governor in America, was an able though arbitrary administrator. Because his regime conflicted with the interests of colonial Puritan leaders, he became a symbol of oppression.Edmund Andros was born in London on Dec. 6, 1637. He was descended from the feudal aristocracy of Guernsey, and his father was master of ceremonies in Charles l's court. The family was royalist during England's civil war, and Andros served in the army following the Restoration. In 1666 he went as a major with an infantry regiment to protect the British West Indies against the Dutch. Six years later he became a landgrave in Carolina colony but showed little interest in the venture, possibly because, on his father's death in 1674, he became both bailiff of Guernsey and governor of the Duke of York's American possessions.Though plagued by controversy with proprietors in New Jersey, Dutch settlers resenting British regulations, and …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…as executive for every royal province on the American mainland. To Virginia he brought the charter establishing William and Mary College. Though Commissary James Blair believed him unconcerned about the college and established church, Andros was an industrious and respected administrator; Edward Randolph called his the only good government in America. Resigning over differences with Blair, Andros returned to England in 1698, served for a time as governor of Jersey island, and died in London on Feb. 27, 1714. Although he was impatient, skeptical of democracy, and unable to understand Puritans, he had been a conscientious and generally capable official. Further Reading Nearly every history of the colonial period deals with Andros and the Dominion, but Viola F. Barnes, The Dominion of New England (1923), is most satisfactory. The Andros Tracts, edited by W. H. Whitmore (3 vols., 1868-1874), and Charles M. Andrews, Narratives of the Insurrections, 1675-1690 (1915), provide additional insight. See also Gerard B. Warden, Boston, 1689-1776 (1970).
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