ANDREWS, CHARLES MC LEAN ), Ameri can educator and historian, was born in Weathersfield, Conn., on Feb. 22, 1863. He was educated at Trinity college, Hartford, Conn., graduating in 1884, and at Johns Hopkins university he received the degree of doctor of philosophy in 1889. He was as sociate professor and professor of history in Bryn Mawr college from 1889 to 1907 and professor of history in Johns Hopkins university from 1907 to 1910 when he became professor of Ameri can history in Yale university. He has been actively associated with many historical societies and has contributed numerous ar ticles to reviews and historical journals.
Among his extensive historical writings are: The River Towns of Connecticut (1889) ; The Old English Manor (1892) ; The Historical Development of Modern Europe (1896-98) ; Contemporary Europe, Asia and Africa, 1871-1901 (1902) ; A History of England, a text-book (1903) ; "Colonial Self-Government, 1652-1689," vol. v. of The American Nation, a History (1904) ; British Commissions, Councils and Committees, 1622-1675 (1908) ; A Short History of England (1912) ; The Colonial Period of American History (1912) ; The British Merchants and the Non-Importation Movement (1917) ; Fathers of New England and Colonial Folkways (in "Chronicles of America" Series, 1919) ; The Colonial Background of the American Revolution (1924)•