Giles Andreae upper second class degree. In 2006 Andreae worked alongside Blunderbus Theatre Company (Nottinghamshire) to adapt his story "Giraffes Can't Dance" to bring it to stage. The company toured this story across the UK. Purple Ronnie is a cartoon character used in greetings cards, T-shirts and other merchandise. Drawn in a simple stick man style with a smiley face and a large oval body, Ronnie is usually shown as a comic poet, the cartoons' rhyming captions being written in a simple style and including mild taboo language. Purple Ronnie cards were first sold in 1987. The character was later used in
Andreae & Co. an apprentice in the firm under J.G.R. Andreae's ownership, and later named the genus "Andreaea" (the type genus of the family "Andreaeaceae") for Andreae. The Andreae family were one of the most highly regarded families in Hanover, and J.G.R. Andreae in particular was one of the city's major benefactors. Johann Gerhard Reinhard Andreae had no children of his own, but he had one sister, Sophie Elisabeth Andreae (1730–1764), who was married to the banker turned theatre director Abel Seyler. Following her death, her husband Abel Seyler gave up his paternal rights to their three children to his brother-in-law Andreae, who