William Andrews (1848-1908) was an author and editor. He authored: Historic Yorkshire (1883), Modern Yorkshire Poets (1885), Curiosities of the Church (1890), Old Church Lore (1891), England in the Days of Old (1897), Manxland Epitaphs (1899), Bygone Punishments (1899), At the Sign of the Barber"s Pole: Studies in Hirsute History (1904) and Modern Merry Men (1904). He also edited Curious Church Customs (1895), Church Treasury (1898), Ecclesiastical Curiosities (1899) and Bygone Church Life in Scotland (1899).