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Alsop Family
Alsop, Allsop or Allsopp may refer to: People In arts and media *Anthony Alsop (died 1726), English poetical writer *Frederick W. Allsop (1867–1946), American author and philanthropist *George Alsop (born c.1638), English-American writer, historian and settler *Jack Allsopp (born 1975), English musician, stage name Just Jack *Jane Allsop (born 1975), Australian actress *Joseph Alsop (1910–1989), American journalist *Kenneth Allsop (1920–1973), British broadcaster, author and naturalist *Kirstie Allsopp (born 1971), British TV presenter *Marin Alsop (born 1956), American conductor *Peter Alsop (born 1946), American musician and children's entertainer *Peter F. B. Alsop (1935–2014), Australian engineer and historian *Richard Alsop (1761–1815), American author *Sofie Allsopp (born 1980), British television presenter *Stewart Alsop (1914–1974), American newspaper columnist and political analyst *Susan Mary Alsop (1918–2004), American socialite and writer *Thomas Allsop (179 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Alsop
Anthony Alsop was born about 1670 and died in Winchester on 10 June 1726. He was a clergyman and Neo-Latin poet who sided with the Tory Party at the end of the Stuart era. His poetry was admired at the time but was eventually forgotten until a recent interest in such work brought him to notice again. Life Alsop was born at Darley Dale in Derbyshire and educated at Westminster School. Going on to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1690, he took the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in 1695 and Master of Arts in 1697. While there he gained a reputation for his elegant Latin verse, some of it produced for public university occasions, some for private circulation, and some Jacobite in spirit. His speciality was the witty verse epistle, most often using the Sapphic stanza. In 1698 Alsop edited a selection of Aesop’s Fables in Latin verse, ''Fabularum Aesopicarum Delectus''. It contains 237 fables in Latin, with the original Greek of the first 158, the Hebrew of the next 10, the Arabic of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |