Cyril Andrews was born in 1923, in Clones, Northern Ireland, and educated at Belfast High School. In 1947 he is recorded as being appointed Architectural Assistant, Grade III, for the Public Works Department, Buganda Province, Uganda, rising up through the ranks to become Architect in the African Housing Department in Kampala in 1954. In the same year, Andrews enrolled as a postgraduate student in the Architectural Association’s (AA) Department of Tropical Architecture course. Following completion of this, Andrews returned to Uganda, where he was appointed Chief Architect for the Ministry of Works (1956). Amongst his documented works are the Magistrate’s Court, Kampala (c1955) and Police Officers’ Mess and Flats, Kampala (1960). He is also recorded as the Vice President of the influential Uganda Club, a club set up in the 1950s, catering for members of the National Assembly and senior civil servants. Details of Andrews’ career, following Ugandan independence are not clear but he appears to have left the country and is recorded with an address in Tripoli in 1969, working for the Belfast-based Consarc Practice until the late 1980s.