Sir Edmund Andros (1637–1714) was one of the most experienced colonial administrators of the seventeenth century. He served as colonial governor of New York from 1674 to 1683, as governor of Virginia from 1692 to 1698, and as proprietary governor of Maryland from 1693 to 1694. He was less successful, though, in his tenure as governor of the Dominion of New England from 1686 to 1689. Andros was in office when Parliament removed the Catholic King James II (1633–1701) from the throne in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He faced a revolution of his own in 1689 that led to his imprisonment. He was shipped back to England to account for his loss of control. The “Report of His Administration” is Andros's own account (written in the third person) of his activity in the dominion.