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'''Andrew Cassels''' (1811 – 2 August 1886) was a British merchant who traded in India and England. He was a member of the [[Council of India]] from 1874 to 1884.<br />
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Born in an old Scottish family, his father resided for some years at [[Manchester]], where he was an associate of [[John Peel (Tamworth MP)|John Peel]], MP, head of Messers John Peel and Co. He spent some years in Europe, chiefly in Italy.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |date=October 1886 |title=IV. Obituary Notices |journal=[[Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society]] |volume=18 |issue=4 |pages=37-38}}</ref> In 1843, Andrew Cassels opened for Peel a branch of the firm in Bombay, which eventually traded as Messers. Peel, Cassels, and Co.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=9 August 1886 |title=Mr. Andrew Cassels |pages=765 |work=The Homeward Mail from India, China, and the East}}</ref> Two of his brothers, including [[Walter Richard Cassels]], were also involved with the firm, which failed in about 1885.<br />
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Returning to England in either 1851<ref name=":1" /> or around 1854,<ref name=":0" /> he continued in business in Manchester for some years.<ref name=":1" /> He was also a director of the [[Metropolitan Railway Company]] and a long-serving chairman of the [[Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China]].<ref name=":1" /> He was elected a director of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce in 1861, resigned in 1868 when he moved to London to sit on the [[Council of India]], to which he was appointed through pressure from the Manchester Chamber of Commercial on [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|Lord Salisbury]], the [[Secretary of State for India]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Silver |first=Arthur W. |title=Manchester Men and Indian Cotton, 1847–1872 |publisher=[[Manchester University Press]] |year=1966 |pages=254}}</ref> He retired from the Council in 1884 on the expiry of his term.<ref name=":1" /><br />
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He died in 1886.<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 August 1886 |title=Deaths |pages=1 |work=[[The Morning Post]]}}</ref><br />
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