Richard Latewar (1560–1601) was an English churchman and academic, known as a

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poet.

Life

Latewar was the son of Thomas Latewar of London, and in 1571 was sent to Merchant Taylors' School. He was elected scholar of

St John's College, Oxford St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979.Communication from Michael Riordan, college archivist Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to pro ...

, in 1580, and in due course became fellow. He was admitted B.A. 28 November 1584, M.A. 23 May 1588, B.D. 2 July 1594, and

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5 February 1597. In 1593 Latewar was proctor, at which time he was rector of

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. In 1596 he was recommended by the university of Oxford as one of the candidates for the first Gresham professorship of divinity. On 28 June 1599 he was appointed rector of

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, Middlesex, As chaplain to

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, Latewar accompanied Blount on his expedition to Ireland. He died on 17 July 1601, from a wound received at

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, on the previous day, and was buried in the church at

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Monument

A monument was erected to Latewar's memory in St John's College chapel by his father; the date of his death is incorrectly given as 27 July.

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, in his ''Terræ Filius'' (p. 185), alleges that on the monument there were these lines: ::''A sero bello dives durusque vocatus'', ::''A sero bello nomen et omen habet''. They are not there now. The actual inscription is given in Anthony Wood's ''History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford'', (p. 566, 1786 edition). It has been attributed, on internal evidence, to

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Works

Latewar was a famous preacher, and a Latin poet.

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refers to his poetic gifts.Annals, ed. 1631, p. 812

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speaks of him as his friend, and in the "Apology" to his ''Philotas'' mentions that Latewar told him that he himself "had written the same argument and caused it to be presented in St. John's College, Oxon., where, as I afterwards heard, it was worthily and with great applause performed." Latewar contributed verses to the Oxford ''Exequi'' on Sir

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, as well as to some other books. He also wrote: * ''Carmen apomnēmoneutikon, Coll. S. Johan. Bapt.'', which was restored and augmented by Richard Andrews, a later fellow of the college. *''Concio Latina ad Academicos Oxon'', 1594, a sermon on

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iii. 1, preached on his admission to his B.D., and printed in 1594 with his apology in Latin. A letter from Latewar to

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is preserved in

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. MS. Julius C. iii. f. 231. An epitaph on him is contained in the ''Affaniæ'' of Charles Fitzgeffrey.

References

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