1. Lancelot Andrewes was an English bishop and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I During the latter's reign, Andrewes served successively as Bishop of Chichester, of Ely, and of Winchester and oversaw the translation of the King James Version of the Bible.
Lancelot Andrewes attended the Cooper's free school in Ratcliff in the parish of Stepney and then the Merchant Taylors' School under Richard Mulcaster.
Lancelot Andrewes was the elder brother of the scholar and cleric Roger Lancelot Andrewes, who served as a translator for the King James Version of the Bible.
Lancelot Andrewes made it a point to refuse to repeat the common Calvinist slogans of his time.
Lancelot Andrewes has been referred to as an avant-garde conformist, which is understood as an implicitly proto-Arminian precursor to Laudianism and explicit English-Arminianism.
Lancelot Andrewes outright decried the translation and Calvinistic notes in the Geneva translation of the Bible.
Lancelot Andrewes taught that God condemned Cain for his own freely chosen sin and he denied that God unconditionally predestined any to salvation or that he unconditionally condemned anyone.
Lancelot Andrewes argued for soteriological synergism, using Lot's wife as a picture that one's salvation is not secure post-conversion apart from an ongoing and freely chosen cooperation with God's saving grace.
John Overall and Lancelot Andrewes were more sympathetic to the Remonstrants than the Calvinists at the time of the Synod of Dort.
Lancelot Andrewes was not on friendly terms with the delegates to the synod and he made it clear that he did not support the results.
Lancelot Andrewes liked to move among the people, yet found time to join a society of antiquaries, of which Walter Raleigh, Philip Sidney, Burghley, Arundel, the Herberts, Saville, John Stow and William Camden were members.
Lancelot Andrewes's argumentation rested on the Old Testament's commands to avoid exposing oneself to contagion, to avoid contact with lepers, etc.
Lancelot Andrewes condemns changes in Christian tradition that "our fathers never knew of".
Lancelot Andrewes assisted at the coronation of James I and Anne, and in 1604 took part in the Hampton Court Conference.
Lancelot Andrewes' name is the first on the list of divines appointed to compile the Authorized Version of the Bible, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611.
Lancelot Andrewes headed the "First Westminster Company" which took charge of the first books of the Old Testament.
Lancelot Andrewes acted, furthermore, as a sort of general editor for the project as well.
Lancelot Andrewes was made dean of the Chapel Royal and translated to Winchester, a diocese that he administered with great success.
Lancelot Andrewes was buried in a small chapel at the east end.
Lancelot Andrewes's monument is by Gerard Janssen; the canopy was restored by Arthur Blomfield with colouring by Ninian Comper.
Lancelot Andrewes was a friend of Hugo Grotius, and one of the foremost contemporary scholars, but is chiefly remembered for his style of preaching.
Lancelot Andrewes preached regularly and submissively before James I and his court on the anniversaries of the Gowrie Conspiracy and the Gunpowder Plot.
Lancelot Andrewes's Life was written by Alexander Whyte, M Wood, and Robert Lawrence Ottley.
Lancelot Andrewes was considered, next to James Ussher, to be the most learned churchman of his day, and enjoyed a great reputation as an eloquent and impassioned preacher, but the stiffness and artificiality of his style render his sermons unsuited to modern taste.
Lancelot Andrewes's doctrine was High Church, and in his life he was humble, pious and charitable.
Lancelot Andrewes continues to influence religious thinkers to the present day, and was cited as an influence by T S Eliot, among others.
Lancelot Andrewes has an academic cap named after him, known as the Bishop Andrewes cap, which is like a mortarboard but made of velvet, floppy and has a tump or tuff instead of a tassel.