Lancelot Andrews, an English scholar and prelate, born in London in 1555, died in Winchester house, Sept. 25, 1626. He was a favorite of James I., who made him his lord almoner, and successively bishop of Chichester, Ely, and Winchester, and a privy councillor; and he was one of the authors of King James's translation of the Scriptures. His Tortura Torti, a large 4to volume (1609), was an answer to Bellarmine's attack upon James's "Defence of the Right of Kings." His other principal works are his "XCVI Sermons," "Lectures on the Ten Commandments," and " Posthumous and Orphan Lectures," all published after his death. His Praeces Privata (1674) is a collection of passages from the Bible and the fathers in Greek and Latin, still much used in the English translation ("Manual of Private Devotions and Meditations for Every Day in the Year"). His style, though much admired in his own day, is quaint, affected, and overloaded with imagery. He had high notions of ecclesiastical authority, which brought him into conflict with the puritans.

He was generally esteemed, however, as a pious, charitable, upright, and munificent prelate.