John Miller Andrews
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The Right Honourable John M. Andrews CH |
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| Prime Minister of Northern Ireland | |
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In office 27 November 1940 – 1 May 1943 |
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| Preceded by | The Viscount Craigavon |
| Succeeded by | Sir Basil Brooke, Bt. |
| Member of the Northern Ireland Parliament for Mid Down |
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In office 22 May 1929 – 22 October 1953 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency Created |
| Succeeded by | Jack Andrews |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
17 July 1871 Comber, Ireland |
| Died | 5 August 1956 (aged 85) Comber, Northern Ireland |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Ulster Unionist Party |
| Spouse(s) | Jessie Andrews |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | Royal Belfast Academical |
| Religion | Non-Subscriber |
John Miller Andrews CH PC (17 July 1871 – 5 August 1956) was the second Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
Andrews was born in Comber, County Down, Ireland in 1871, the eldest child in the family of four sons and one daughter of Thomas Andrews DL, flax spinner, and his wife Eliza Pirrie, a sister of Lord Pirrie, chairman of Harland and Wolff.
He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. In business, Andrews was a landowner, a director of his family linen-bleaching company and of the Belfast Ropeworks. His younger brother, Thomas Andrews, who died in the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, was managing director of the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast; another brother, Sir James Andrews, 1st Baronet, was Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.
In 1902 he married Jessie (d. 1950), eldest daughter of Bolton stockbroker Joseph Ormrod at Rivington Unitarian Chapel, Rivington, near Chorley, Lancashire, England. They had one son and two daughters. His younger brother, Sir James, married Jessie's sister.
Andrews served as a MP in the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 until 1953 (for County Down constituency from 1921–29 and for Mid-Down from 1929–1953). He was a founder member of the Ulster Unionist Labour Association, which he chaired, and was Minister of Labour from 1921 to 1937. He was Minister of Finance from 1937 to 1940; on the death of Lord Craigavon, in 1940, he became leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the second Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
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