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Miles Peter Andrews
Miles Peter Andrews (1742 – 18 July 1814) was an 18th-century English playwright, gunpowder manufacturer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1796 to 1814.
Biography.
Andrews was the son of William Andrews, a drysalter of Watling Street and his wife Catherine Pigou. After helping his father in business in the day time, he was "accustomed to sally forth in the evening with sword and bag to Ranelagh or some other public place". He gradually made useful social
was listed as an East India Company stockholder in 1795. For the loyalty loan of 1797, he subscribed £25,000 as a resident of Enfield and another £25,000 as a merchant at Change Alley. He was also a governor of Christ's Hospital. In 1803 he was a director of the Globe Insurance Company. One of his fellow directors was Miles Peter Andrews, with whom he was connected through the Pigou family.
Andrews was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Bewdley, and on his death in 1814 Wilsonn