At the university of Geneva he was remarked for a diligent student, and for an active and inquiring mind ; and in special was distinguished by his proficiency in the schools of mathematics and of military drawings. To his skill in this last branch, his subsequent rapid advancement in the army was in great part attributable." In 1767 or 1 768. when about sixteen or seventeen years of age, he entered the counting house of his father. Nor did the death of his father, which occurred at the house in Clapton (called the Manor house) in April, 1769, make at the time any material difference in the nature of his avocations.

What family was left by the elder Andre1 can only be gathered from the fact that in 1780, besides his widow, there still remained a second a Ditto.

b Life of Major Andre hy Wlnthrop Sarpent. c Life of Major Andre by Wiutlirop Sargent.

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son, William Lewis, who was eight years behind his brother : and three daughters, Louisa Catherine, Mary Hannah and Anne. The last is said to have been distinguished for a poetical talent.a Of these sisters, Louisa Catherine was born 1754, and Mary Hannah about 1752, according to the inscriptions in the church yard at Bath-Hampton, where they are buried ; the last of these two dates going far to fix that of Major Andre's birth as of 1751.

In 1780, also, there were yet living at London, two brothers of the elder Andre : Mr. David Andre, of New Broad street, and Mr. John Lewis Andre, of Warnford Court, Throgmorton street, who were known to the community as respectable Turkey merchants, and who doubtless still carried on at the old place, the business in which their brother had prospered well, but which their nephews had declined.6