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Lodowick Alphabet
Lodowick is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Lodowick Bryskett, 16th-century Irish poet and translator *Lodowick Carlell (1602–1675), English playwright See also *Lodowicke Muggleton Lodowicke Muggleton (1609–1698) was an English religious thinker who gave his name to Muggletonianism, a Protestant sect which was always small, but survived until the death of its last follower in 1979. He spent his working life as a journeym ... (1609–1698), English plebeian religious thinker * Lozowick, a surname {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lodowick Bryskett
Lodowick Bryskett (1547–1612 ca., fl. 1571–1611), was a poet, translator, diplomat and Irish official. He served as Special Ambassador from England to Tuscany in 1600-01. Life He is stated to have been the son of ‘a natural (born) Italian', who has been identified as Antonio Bruschetto, a merchant of Genoa who settled in Hackney, London, but of his early life nothing definite is known. He was generally believed to have relations in Florence, where he certainly had many correspondents. He matriculated as a pensioner of Trinity College, Cambridge, 27 April 1559, but left the university without proceeding to a degree. In Ireland On 7 April 1571, Lord Burghley was informed that Bryskett was temporarily filling the office of clerk of the Privy Council of Ireland under Sir Henry Sidney, the Lord Deputy of Ireland. Before 1572 he had become the intimate friend of Sir Henry Sidney's son, Philip Sidney, and he was young Sidney's companion on a three years' continental tour throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lodowick Carlell
Lodowick Carlell (1602–1675), also Carliell or Carlile, was a seventeenth-century English playwright, was active mainly during the Caroline era and the Commonwealth period. Courtier Carlell's ancestry was Scottish. He was the son of Herbert Carlell of Bridekirk in Dumfriesshire, and the third of four brothers. He was not educated at university, though he did produce translations from French and Spanish during his lifetime; he probably had the informal though not always contemptible education of a courtier, which he was from about the age of 15. In his extra-literary life, Carlell was a courtier and royal functionary; he held the offices of Gentleman of the Bows to King Charles I, and Groom to the King and Queen's Privy Chamber. He was also Keeper of the Great Forest at Richmond Park. In the latter post, he assisted the King in his frequent hunts, and throughout the 1630s he lived in the Park at Petersham Lodge. In this same period he accomplished most of his dramatic autho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lodowicke Muggleton
Lodowicke Muggleton (1609–1698) was an English religious thinker who gave his name to Muggletonianism, a Protestant sect which was always small, but survived until the death of its last follower in 1979. He spent his working life as a journeyman tailor in the City of London and was imprisoned twice for his beliefs. He held opinions hostile to all forms of philosophical reason, and had received only a basic education. He encouraged quietism and free-thought amongst his followers whose beliefs were predestinarian in a manner that was distinct from Calvinism. Near the close of his long life, Muggleton wrote his spiritual autobiography which was published posthumously. Childhood and apprenticeship Lodowicke Muggleton was born in a house called Walnut Tree Yard on Bishopsgate Street (now Bishopsgate) in the City of London. His father, John, was a farrier and a post office contractor. Lodowicke was the youngest of three children when his mother, Mary, died in 1612. On his father's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
