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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.
Richard Allestree (1665–1680) Zachary Cradock (1681–1695) 18th century. Henry Godolphin (1695–1732) Henry Bland (1733–1746) previously Head Master 1720–1728;
Richard Brinsley Sheridan guyed it in The Rivals. [12] This trope was employed by the American hoaxer George Francis Thomas in several conflicting accounts he published of the hermit William Wilson, who lived on one of Lake Superior's Apostle Islands in the 1840s and 1850s. Writing more forty years later, Thomas reported that Wilson carried the ...
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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.
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 ...
Polish settlers launched a labor strike in 1619 against the Virginia Company, and were successful in reaching an agreement. The skills of these Polish colonists were vital to the new settlement, as the House of Burgesses ultimately recognized when it met in 1619. During its deliberations, the House excluded the Polish community from voting rights.
Perth Assembly was a controversial book published by the Pilgrims in Leiden in 1619. In the same year, before they departed on the Mayflower for Massachusetts; the book was smuggled into Scotland in wine vats. [1] The book was critical of the Five Articles of Perth, a church statute which had been ratified by the General Assembly in Perth in 1618.