John Flavel (1596–1617) was an English

logician Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premises ...

Life

Flavel was born in 1596 at

Bishop's Lydeard Bishops Lydeard () is a village and civil parish located in Somerset, England, north-west of Taunton in the district of Somerset West and Taunton. The civil parish encompasses the hamlets of East Lydeard, Terhill, and East Bagborough, and had a ...

Somerset ( en, All The People of Somerset) , locator_map = , coordinates = , region = South West England , established_date = Ancient , established_by = , preceded_by = , origin = , lord_lieutenant_office =Lord Lieutenant of Somerset , lord_ ...

, England, where his father was a clergyman. He matriculated on 25 January 1611 at

Trinity College, Oxford (That which you wish to be secret, tell to nobody) , named_for = The Holy Trinity , established = , sister_college = Churchill College, Cambridge , president = Dame Hilary Boulding , location = Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BH , coordinates ...

, and developed a turn for logical disputation. In 1613 he was made one of the first scholars of

Wadham College Wadham College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is located in the centre of Oxford, at the intersection of Broad Street and Parks Road. Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Dorothy W ...

. He graduated B.A. on 28 June 1614, and lectured on logic. Proceeding M.A. on 23 June 1617, he was in the same year chosen professor of grammar. He had skill in Greek and Latin verse. He died on 10 November 1617, and was buried in Wadham College chapel.

Works

After Flavel's death,

Alexander Huish Alexander Huish (1594?–1668) was an English cleric, academic and biblical scholar. Life He was the son of John Hewish or Huish, born in the parish of St. Cuthbert, Wells, Somerset, Wells, Somerset, in 1594 or 1595. He entered Magdalen Hall, Oxf ...

of Wadham edited from his manuscript a logical treatise, with the title ''Tractatus de Demonstratione Methodicus et Polemicus'', &c., Oxford, 1619. The treatise, which is in four books, was not intended for publication. Huish dedicated it (1 March 1619) to Arthur Lake,

bishop of Bath and Wells The Bishop of Bath and Wells heads the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Province of Canterbury in England. The present diocese covers the overwhelmingly greater part of the (ceremonial) county of Somerset and a small area of Do ...

. Anthony Wood mentions ''Grammat. Græc. Enchyridion'' by a Joh. Flavell.

References

;Attribution 1596 births 1617 deaths People from Somerset 17th-century English writers 17th-century English male writers English logicians Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford {{UK-academic-bio-stub