Robert Waring (1614–1658) was an English academic, cleric and author.

Life

His father was Edmund Waring and his mother the daughter of Richard Broughton, of Owlbury in the parish of

Bishops Castle Bishop's Castle is a market town in the south west of Shropshire, England. According to the 2011 Census it had a population of 1,893. Bishop's Castle is east of the Wales-England border, about north-west of Ludlow and about south-west of ...

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, and niece of

Hugh Broughton Hugh Broughton (1549 – 4 August 1612) was an English scholar and theologian. Early life He was born at Owlbury, Bishop's Castle, Shropshire. He called himself a Cambrian, implying Welsh blood in his veins. He was educated by Bernard Gilpin ...

. He was educated at

Westminster School (God Gives the Increase) , established = Earliest records date from the 14th century, refounded in 1560 , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , head_label = Hea ...

; he matriculated at

Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church ( la, Ædes Christi, the temple or house, '' ædēs'', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, the college is uniqu ...

on 24 February 1632, graduating B.A. on 20 June 1634 and M.A. on 26 April 1637. During the

First English Civil War The First English Civil War took place in England and Wales from 1642 to 1646, and forms part of the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. They include the Bishops' Wars, the Irish Confederate Wars, the Second English Civil War, the Anglo ...

Waring bore arms for the king at Oxford. He was elected proctor on 29 April 1647 and

Camden professor of ancient history The Camden Professorship of Ancient History at the University of Oxford was established in 1622 by English antiquary and historian William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, and endowed with the income of the manor of Bexley, becoming the first and ...

on 2 August that year. A protest against the election was made by Charles Wheare, son of the previous professor

Degory Wheare Degory Wheare, also spelt Digory Whear (the first name can be Latinized as Degoreus or Digoreus) (1573 – 1 August 1647) was an historian, the first Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford. Life He was born in Jacob ...

, who had been given the place by the parliamentary visitors. According to the statutes Waring was not eligible, being in holy orders. He took an active part in resisting the proceedings of the visitors. Disregarding their order for his removal from his post of proctor, he was pronounced by them guilty of contempt of the authority of parliament on 14 December 1647. it

John Selden John Selden (16 December 1584 – 30 November 1654) was an English jurist, a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law. He was known as a polymath; John Milton hailed Selden in 1644 as "the chief of learned ...

interceded, and Waring avoided banishment from the university. Waring was then summoned to London on 6 April 1648, was ordered into custody, but escaped again to Oxford. On 14 September of that year he was deprived of his proctorship, professorship, and student's place. He retired to Apley in Shropshire, the seat of Sir William Whitmore, with whom he subsequently visited France. Waring died unmarried in

Lincoln's Inn Fields Lincoln's Inn Fields is the largest public square in London. It was laid out in the 1630s under the initiative of the speculative builder and contractor William Newton, "the first in a long series of entrepreneurs who took a hand in develo ...

on 10 May 1658, and was buried at St. Michael's, College Hill. His will was proved on 20 May 1658 by his sister and sole executrix, Anne Staunton.

Works

Waring published: * ''A publike Conference betwixt the six Presbyterian Ministers and some Independent Commanders at Oxford, 12 Nov. 1646'' (anon.) 1646. * ''An Account of Mr. Pryn's Refutation of the University of Oxford's Plea'', Oxford, 1648. * ''Amoris Effigies'' (anon.), London, 1649, 1664, 1668, 1671. In 1680 appeared a loose English translation, by a Robert Nightingale, which deviated in many points from the Latin original. John Norris, under the pseudonym Phil-iconerus, published a fresh translation, London, 1682; 2nd edit., 1701; 4th edit., 1744. In his introduction, Norris wrote of Waring's "sweetness of fancy, neatness of style, and lusciousness of hidden sense". Waring also wrote Latin verses, including in ''Jonsonus Virbius'' (1639), reprinted in the 1668 and subsequent editions of the ''Amoris Effigies'', under the title of ''Carmen Lapidorium''.

Notes

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Waring, Robert 1614 births 1658 deaths Writers from Shropshire 17th-century English historians Camden Professors of Ancient History