Augustine Lindsell (died 6 November 1634) was an English classical scholar and

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. In church matters he was advanced by

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, and was a firm supporter of William Laud. As a scholar he influenced Thomas Farnaby.

Life

He was born at Bumstead-Steeple, Essex. On 4 April 1592, he was admitted pensioner of

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, but was subsequently scholar and fellow of Clare Hall (now

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). He graduated

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(BA) in 1595/6,

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(MA Cantab) in 1599, and

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(DD) in 1621. At Clare, he was tutor to

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. In March 1610, he became rector of Wickford,

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. Neile,

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, appointed him his chaplain. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Regius Professorship of Greek (at Cambridge), when it was vacant after the resignation of Andrew Downes in 1627. He and

Patrick Young Patrick Young (29 August 1584 – 7 September 1652), also known as Patricius Junius, was a Scottish scholar and royal librarian to King James VI and I, and King Charles I. He was a noted Biblical and patristic scholar. Life He was born at Seto ...

were the two scholars given special access to the Barozzi manuscripts, and Lindsell worked on the cataloguing of the collection. He was installed as Dean of Lichfield on 15 October 1628. He was responsible for introducing Christopher Davenport, the Catholic eirenicist, to Laud. With John Cosin and Francis Burgoyne, he was accused in 1630 of not maintaining that the Pope was the Antichrist. This small group at Durham was strongly opposed by

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, and he accused them of, in effect, wanting to turn back the Reformation.Kenneth Fincham, Nicholas Tyacke, ''Altars Restored: The Changing Face of English Religious Worship, 1547–'' (2007), pp. 137–9. On 10 February 1633, he was consecrated a bishop, becoming Bishop of Peterborough, and in March 1634 was translated to

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. He died unmarried on 6 November 1634, and was buried in

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. To Clare Hall Library he bequeathed all his Greek manuscripts and some Greek books; to Robert Cotton he left a manuscript history of

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in Latin.

Works

His edition of Theophylact's ''Commentaries on St. Paul's Epistles'' was published by T. Baily, his coadjutor in the work (fol. London, 1636). It is dedicated to Laud.

References

Sources

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindsell, Augustine Year of birth unknown 1634 deaths Bishops of Hereford Bishops of Peterborough Burials at Hereford Cathedral Deans of Lichfield 17th-century Church of England bishops People from Steeple Bumpstead