Andrew Allam
Andrew Allam (1655 – 17 June 1685) was an English academic and miscellaneous writer.[1]
Life[]
The son of a humble family, he was born at Garsington, near Oxford, and was educated under a noted schoolmaster of the time, , of Brasenose College, at Denton, near his native place. In 1671, he entered at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, of which he subsequently became the vice-principal. In 1680 he took holy orders.[1]
Works[]
His chief works are some additions to Edward Chamberlayne's Angliae Notitia (1684), and to Helvicus's Historical and Chronological Theatre, (published 1687); the Epistle prefixed to Richard Cosin's Ecclesiae Anglicanae Politeia, &c, containing an account of the doctor's life; and a translation of the life of Iphicrates, Oxford 1684. He assisted Anthony Wood in his Athenae Oxon, and had projected a Notitia Ecclesiae Anglicanae, or History of Cathedrals, but was prevented by death from completing his plan.[1]
Notes[]
- ^ a b c Allibone 1859, p. 52.
References[]
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