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J. M. Andrews

John Miller Andrews CH, PC (17 July 18715 August 1956) was the second Prime Minister of

Northern Ireland.

Andrews was born in Comber, County Down, Ireland in 1871,[1] the eldest child in the family

of four sons and one daughter of Thomas Andrews DL, flax spinner, and his wife Eliza Pirrie, a

sister of Lord Pirrie, chairman of Harland and Wolff.

He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. In business, Andrews was a

landowner, a director of his family linen-bleaching company and of the Belfast Ropeworks.[1]His brother, Thomas Andrews, who died in the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, was managing

director of the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast; another brother, Sir James Andrews, 1st

Baronet, was Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.

In 1902 he married Jessie (d. 1950), eldest daughter of Bolton stockbroker Joseph Ormrod at

Rivington Unitarian Chapel, Rivington, near Chorley, Lancashire, England. They had one son

and two daughters. His younger brother, Sir James, married Jessie's sister.