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Henry Brinklow
Henry Brinklow, also Brynklow or Brinkelow (died 1545 or 1546), was an English polemicist. As he worked for a number of years under the pseudonym ''Roderyck'', or ''Roderigo'', ''Mors'', he may also be referred to by this name in contemporaneous accounts.Alec Ryrie‘Brinklow , Henry (d. 1545/6)’ ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 30 September 2006 Life as Henry Brinklow Henry Brinklow was the eldest of nine children of Robert Brinklow, a farmer in Kintbury, Berkshire. Robert died in 1543, leaving a widow Sibyl (or Isabel), who appears to have been the mother of Edward Butler of Reading, Berkshire, Reading by a former marriage, and may not have been the mother of Robert's children. Sibyl died in 1545, also leaving a will. Brinklow lived most of his life in London, where he could observe many of the political changes in England. He became a Mercery, mercer – at that time probably meaning a merchant in cloth and similar commod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford Dictionary Of National Biography
The ''Dictionary of National Biography'' (''DNB'') is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885. The updated ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (''ODNB'') was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online, with 50,113 biographical articles covering 54,922 lives. First series Hoping to emulate national biographical collections published elsewhere in Europe, such as the '' Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (1875), in 1882 the publisher George Smith (1824–1901), of Smith, Elder & Co., planned a universal dictionary that would include biographical entries on individuals from world history. He approached Leslie Stephen, then editor of the ''Cornhill Magazine'', owned by Smith, to become the editor. Stephen persuaded Smith that the work should focus only on subjects from the United Kingdom and its present and former colonies. An early working title was the ''Biographia Britannica'', the name of an earlier eightee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |