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Edward Lapworth
Edward Lapworth (1574–1636) was an English physician and Latin poet, and the first Sedleian reader at the University of Oxford. Life Lapworth was a native of Warwickshire; his father was physician to Henry Berkeley. He was admitted B.A. at St Alban Hall, Oxford on 25 October 1592, and M.A. 30 June 1595. From 1598 to 1610 he was Master of Magdalen College School. As a member of Magdalen College Lapworth supplicated for the degree of M.B. and for licence to practise medicine 1 March 1602–3. He was licensed on 3 June 1605, and was admitted M.B. and M.D. on 20 June 1611. Lapworth was ''moderator in vesperiis'' in medicine in 1605 and 1611, and respondent in natural philosophy on James I's visit to Oxford in 1605. In July 1611 he had permission to be absent from congregation in order that he might attend to his medical practice. In 1617 and 1619 he seems to have been in practice at Faversham, Kent. In 1618 Lapworth was designated first Sedleian reader in natural philosophy un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sedleian
The Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy is the name of a chair at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford. Overview The Sedleian Chair was founded by Sir William Sedley who, by his will dated 20 October 1618, left the sum of £2,000 to the University of Oxford for purchase of lands for its endowment. Sedley's bequest took effect in 1621 with the purchase of an estate at Waddesdon in Buckinghamshire to produce the necessary income. It is regarded as the oldest of Oxford's scientific chairs. Holders of the Sedleian Professorship have, since the mid 19th century, worked in a range of areas of applied mathematics and mathematical physics. They are simultaneously elected to fellowships at Queen's College, Oxford. The Sedleian Professors in the past century have been Augustus Love (1899-1940), who was distinguished for his work in the mathematical theory of elasticity, Sydney Chapman (1946-1953), who is renowned for his contributions to the kinetic theory of g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Coke (MP For Coventry And Fowey)
Sir Robert Coke (1587–19 July 1653) of Caludon Castle, Coventry, Huntingfield, Suffolk and Epsom, Surrey was an English politician. Life He was the second son of Sir Edward Coke and his wife, Bridget Paston, daughter of John Paston (MP), becoming his father's heir when the eldest son Edward died as an infant. He was knighted in 1607. After marrying Theophila, daughter of Sir Thomas Berkeley, he resided at Caludon Castle, owned by his wife's family the Berkeleys, and was elected to parliament for , in the vicinity, in 1614. That year he was the dedicatee of a mathematics book by William Bedwell, based on a work by Lazarus Schöner. In summer 1617, when Frances Coke was defying her father Sir Edward's wishes over a marriage, she was sent to her brother Sir Robert at Kingston upon Thames. This was one step in a complex story mostly played out along the River Thames. Coke was heavily in debt in the 1620s. He was elected again to parliament, in 1624, for , thought to be a no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
17th-century English Medical Doctors
The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 ( MDCI), to December 31, 1700 ( MDCC). It falls into the early modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French ''Grand Siècle'' dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, the world's first public company and megacorporation known as the Dutch East India Company, and according to some historians, the General Crisis. From the mid-17th century, European politics were increasingly dominated by the Kingdom of France of Louis XIV, where royal power was solidified domestically in the civil war of the Fronde. The semi-feudal territorial French nobility was weakened and subjugated to the power of an absolute monarchy through the reinvention of the Palace of Versailles from a hunting lodge to a gilded prison, in which a greatly expanded royal court could be more easily k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1636 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – Anthony van Diemen takes office as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), and will serve until his death in 1645. * January 18 – ''The Duke's Mistress'', the last play by James Shirley, is given its first performance. * February 21 – Al Walid ben Zidan, Sultan of Morocco, is assassinated by French renegades. * February 26 – Nimi a Lukeni a Nzenze a Ntumba is installed as King Alvaro VI of Kongo, in the area now occupied by the African nation of Angola, and rules until his death on February 22, 1641. * March 5 (February 24 Old Style) – King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway gives an order, that all beggars that are able to work must be sent to Brinholmen, to build ships or to work as galley rowers. * March 13 (March 3 Old Style) – A "great charter" to the University of Oxford establishes the Oxford University Press, as the second of the privileged presses in England. * March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1574 Births
__NOTOC__ Year 1574 ( MDLXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * February 23 – The fifth War of Religion against the Huguenots begins in France. * April 14 – Battle of Mookerheyde: Spanish forces under Sancho de Avila defeat the rebel forces of Louis of Nassau, who is killed. * May 30 – On the death of King Charles IX of France of a tubercular condition at the Château de Vincennes, he is succeeded by his brother King Henry of Poland, who becomes King Henry III of France. His mother, Catherine de' Medici, acts as Regent, until Henry arrives from Poland. * June 10 – Manila, Philippines gains cityhood. July–December * August 30 – Guru Ram Das becomes the fourth of the Sikh gurus. * September – A plot to assassinate John III of Sweden is discovered, headed by Charles de Mornay and implicating Charles Dancay, Hogenskild Bielke, Gusta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Joyner (playwright)
William W. Joyner (born c. 1831) was a Michigan politician. Political life Joyner served as Flint Post Office's Postmaster. He was elected as the Mayor In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilities of a mayor as well a ... of the City of Flint in 1884 serving a 1-year term. References Mayors of Flint, Michigan 1830s births Year of death missing {{Michigan-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Snigg
Sir George Snigge (1544/45 – 11 November 1617) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1605. Snigge was the son and heir of George Snigge (died 1582) who was Mayor of Bristol in 1575. He became a student of Christ Church, Oxford in 1564, and was awarded BA on 25 June 1566. He was admitted a student of the Middle Temple on 9 August 1567 and was called to the bar on 17 June 1575. In 1568, Snigge was elected Member of Parliament for Cricklade in Wiltshire. He was Autumn Reader for his Inn in 1590 and became Recorder of Bristol in 1593. In 1597 he was elected MP for Bristol. He was Double Lent Reader in 1599. In 1601 he was re-elected MP for Bristol. He was Treasurer of his Inn in May 1602 and was made a Serjeant-at-law in the Easter term of 1604. He was knighted about this time. In 1604 he was re-elected MP for Bristol until 1605 when he became a Baron of the Court of Exchequer. He took office on 28 June 1605 and hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Jorden
Edward Jorden (1569–1633) was an English physician and chemist. Life Jorden was born in High Halden, Kent. His university education in England is disputed. One account states that Jorden "was the younger son of a gentleman of good family. He studied at Oxford, probably at Hart Hall, travelled on the continent, meeting Andreas Libavius, and obtained an MD at Padua (c.1591), where he became familiar with the work of Fallopius and earlier contributors to the development of methods for the examination of mineral waters who were connected with that University." Another account has him educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he graduated BA 1583 and MA 1586. Both accounts agree that he received his medical education in Italy, while travelling widely and attending classes at the universities of Padua, Bologna, Ferrara and Venice, and receiving his MD from Padua in 1591. He became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in November 1595 and a Fellow in December 1597. He pra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Sylvester
Josuah Sylvester (1563 – 28 September 1618) was an English poet. Biography Sylvester was the son of a Kentish clothier. In his tenth year he was sent to school at King Edward VI School, Southampton, where he gained a knowledge of French. After about three years at school, he appears to have been put to business, and in 1591 the title-page of his ''Yvry'' states that he was in the service of the Merchant Adventurers' Company. He was for a short time a land steward, and in 1606 Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales gave him a small pension as a kind of court poet. In 1613 he obtained a position as secretary to the Merchant Adventurers. He was stationed at Middelburg, in the Low Countries, where he died. Works He translated into English heroic couplets the scriptural epic of Guillaume du Bartas. His ''Essay of the Second Week'' was published in 1598; and in 1604 ''The Divine Weeks of the World's Birth''. The ornate style of the original offered no difficulty to Sylvest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey De Wilton
The Rt Hon. Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton, KG (1536–1593), was a baron in the Peerage of England. Lord Grey de Wilton is now largely remembered for his memoir of his father, for participating in the last defence of Calais (1558), and for his involvement in the massacre after the Siege of Smerwick (1580) on ''Corca Dhuibhne'' in County Kerry. He served as Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1580 until 1582. Life Arthur Grey was the eldest son of The 13th Baron Grey de Wilton and Mary, daughter of The 1st Earl of Worcester. He was a Knight and he was recorded as being Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire on two separate occasions, in both 1569 and 1587, though it is not recorded if he held that title for all the years in between. He probably went with his father to Guisnes in 1553; certainly, he was there when the French declared war in 1557; his eyewitness account of his father's last desperate defence of Guisnes, after Calais itself has fallen, remains the best source f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rouse Bloxam
John Rouse Bloxam (1807–1891) was an English academic and clergyman, the historian of Magdalen College, Oxford. Life Born at Rugby on 25 April 1807, he was the sixth son of Richard Rouse Bloxam, D.D. (died 28 March 1840), under-master of Rugby School for 38 years, and rector of Brinklow and vicar of Bulkington, both in Warwickshire, who married Ann, sister of Sir Thomas Lawrence. All the six sons were foundationers at Rugby School, and all attended, as chief mourners, the funeral of Lawrence in St Paul's Cathedral. Bloxam was sent in 1814 to Rugby School, where he was a school-fellow of Roundell Palmer, and obtained an exhibition at the University of Oxford in 1826. He matriculated from Worcester College, Oxford, on 20 May 1826, and was bible clerk there from that year to 1830. From 1830 to 1835 he held a demyship at Magdalen College, and graduated B.A. from that college on 9 February 1832, having been in the fourth (honours) class in classics in 1831. He was ordained de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Berkeley (1575–1611)
Sir Thomas Berkeley, KB (11 July 1575 – 22 November 1611) was the son and heir apparent of Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley, and a Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire from 1604 until 1611. Family Thomas Berkeley was the son of Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley (d. 26 November 1613), by his first wife, Katherine Howard (d. 7 April 1596), third daughter of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and Frances de Vere, daughter of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Trussell. Career Berkeley matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, on 27 June 1590 at the age of 14. On 2 February 1589 he entered Gray's Inn. He was created a Knight of the Bath on 25 July 1603 at the coronation of King James I. In 1604 he was elected Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire.. Berkeley died on 22 November 1611 at the age of 37. Marriage and issue Berkeley married Elizabeth Carey, daughter and sole heir of George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, and his wife, Elizabeth Spencer: *Theophila, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
