Andrew Steinmetz

Andrew Steinmetz (1816–1877) was a British author and barrister associated with the Middle Temple. Contemporary and library records also describe him as holding a first-class extra certificate from the School of Musketry at Hythe and as a former instructor in musketry with the Queen's Own Light Infantry Militia.

His known works show an unusually broad range of interests. They include The Novitiate; or, A Year Among the English Jesuits, a personal narrative published in the 1840s, as well as later books such as The History of the Jesuits, Japan and Her People, The Romance of Duelling, and The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Taken together, they suggest a writer drawn to institutions, conflict, manners, and the stranger corners of social life.

Reliable biographical details about his private life are limited in the sources I could confirm, but his surviving bibliography gives a clear sense of his appeal: he wrote energetic, curious books meant to explain complex worlds to general readers. For listeners interested in Victorian nonfiction, he offers a window into the concerns and fascinations of his time.