ANDREW, JOHN CHAPMAN (1822-1907) was the son of the Rev James Andrew, vicar of Whitby. Educated at Sedbergh school and at University College, Oxford, he graduated B.A. in 1844 and M.A. in 1847 (with honours in classics and mathematics). In 1845 he was elected a fellow and tutor of Lincoln College, but resigned the fellowship on his marriage in 1856 to Emma, daughter of the Rev H. Fendall, vicar of Crambe, Yorkshire. He was ordained deacon (1847) and priest (1848), and appointed vicar of St Michael's, Oxford.

In 1856 Andrew emigrated to Canterbury in the Westminster, and made some explorations in the Mackenzie country and the Southern Alps. In 1857 he leased the Otamatata run, on the upper Waitaki, which he held till 1866, when he moved to the North Island, purchasing 18,200 acres at Castlepoint, upon which he resided after his return from England (1869). He gave the run the name 'Ica,' from his initials as stencilled on his wool bales. Andrew represented Wairarapa East in the Wellington Provincial Council (1867-75) and Wairarapa in Parliament (1871-77). He was chairman of the Whareama road board, a member of the Castlepoint county council and of the first Wellington education board. From 1876 to 1886 he was headmaster of Nelson College, resigning his seat in Parliament to attend to this duty. He was one of the founders of the University of New Zealand, and was a member of the senate (1874-1907), and vice-chancellor (1885-1905). While in Nelson he assisted to found the Nelson Philosophical Society. In 1880 he married (secondly) Emily Sarah, daughter of John Morgan (Hobart). About 1895 Andrew retired from farming and resided thereafter at Otaki, where he died on 7 Dec 1907.

Nelson Coll. Reg.; Wellington P.C. Proc.; Who's Who N.Z., 1908; Col. Gent.; Cycl. N.Z., i; Hocken, Otago; John Wilson; J. Park in Otago Daily Times, 25, 26 Mar 1925; N.Z. Times, 9 Dec 1907. Portrait: Parliament House.

Reference: Volume 1, page 24

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