Tag: biography
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Finding Scottish University Graduates in Early Modern Records
Inspired by a recent query from one of my postgraduates, I thought there might be some value in providing a quick tutorial in how to locate the academic backgrounds of early modern Scots with university degrees. Let us suppose you find a Scot in a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century document with the honorific “M[aste]r”. Unlike its more…
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Appletons’ Cyclopaedia and a Mysterious Literary Hoax
Alert readers of my blog will have noticed that last week’s post on the Restoration scholar and poet Roger Trosse is a fraud; no such man existed and the all-too-plausible biography, though populated with plenty of real individuals – George Hickes and Francis Cherry, among others – is idle pastiche. I hope this small exercise…
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The Curious Life of Roger Trosse (1651-1709)
Trosse, Roger (1651-1709), theological scholar and poet, was baptised 14 June 1651 at Saint Mary Major, Exeter, Devon, the third son and seventh child of Thomas Trosse of Woodbury, Devon, and Elizabeth Webb, daughter of John Webb of Exeter, gentleman. The Presbyterian minister George Trosse (1631-1713) was an uncle. After attending Blundell’s School, where he…
Kelsey Jackson Williams 