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The son of Robert Allestree, descended from an old Derbyshire family, he was born at Uppington in Shropshire. Although John Fell gave his birth date as March 1619, this conflicts with his college records. [1] He was educated at the Free School, [2] Coventry, and entered Christ Church, Oxford, under Richard Busby.
The Whole Duty of Man is an English high-church 'Protestant' devotional work, first published anonymously in 1658, with an introduction by Henry Hammond (1605–1660). It was both popular and influential for two centuries within the Anglican tradition that it helped to define.
Richard Allestree (1619 at Uppington - 1681), Royalist churchman, author and sometime Provost of Eton College. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Goronwy Owen (1723-1769), Welsh poet, concurrently curate at Uppington church and master at Donnington School 1748–53.
Richard Allestree (1665–1680) Zachary Cradock (1681–1695) 18th century. Henry Godolphin (1695–1732) Henry Bland (1733–1746) previously Head Master 1720–1728;
During the Civil War he bore arms for King Charles I of England and held a commission as ensign.In 1648 he was deprived of his studentship by the parliamentary visitors, and during the next few years he resided chiefly at Oxford with his brother-in-law, Thomas Willis, at whose house opposite Merton College he and his friends Richard Allestree and John Dolben maintained an Anglican presence in ...
Richard Allestree or Allestry (1619–1681), Royalist churchman and provost of Eton College from 1665 Anthony Alsop (d. 1726), Church of England clergyman and poetical writer George Ashby (1724–1808), English learned antiquary and sometime president of St. John's College, Cambridge
On 24 February 1680 he was elected provost of Eton, in succession to Richard Allestree and in opposition to Edmund Waller the poet, who, according to Wood, ‘had tugged hard for it.’ [2] In June 1695 it was reported that the deanery of Lincoln was offered him. He died in September 1695, and was buried in Eton College Chapel.
Berkeley Hundred was a Virginia Colony, founded in 1619, which comprised about eight thousand acres (32 km 2) on the north bank of the James River. It was near Herring Creek in an area which is now known as Charles City County, Virginia. It was the site of an early documented Thanksgiving when the settlers landed in what later was the United States