Townsend Andrews

Townsend Andrews (20 November 1702 – 1737) of Coulston, Wiltshire, was a British official and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1737.

Andrews was the eldest son of Thomas Andrews of Highgate, Middlesex, and his wife Sarah Townsend, daughter of John Townsend of Highgate, soapmaker of London. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School in 1717 and was admitted at Clare College, Cambridge in 1718 and at Inner Temple in 1718. He succeeded his father before November 1721 and to the estates of his maternal grandfather, John Townsend, at Tytherton Lucas and elsewhere in Wiltshire in 1725. He married Catherine Gibson, daughter of Thomas Gibson before 1731.

Andrews died on 6 May 1737.