A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation

A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation

The object of this little work, is, to show to the English reader, that Wales has produced a number of highly talented and distinguished individuals; and the publication might be greatly extended, were it deemed prudent to add the names of those learned men who are still among us. William Baxter was born in Wales in the year 1650. In his eighteenth year he was sent to Harrow School, when he could speak no other language but Welsh; he, however, soon acquired English, and triumphantly overcame all these disadvantages, and at the age of twenty-nine he commenced author, with the publication of his Analogia Lingu Latin. He afterwards was appointed master of the Mercers School, in London. He soon made himself known as an excellent philologist and antiquary, by several learned works, and more particularly his Horace and his Dictionary of British Antiquities, entitled Glossarium Antiquitatum Britannicarum, in which he attempted, from his knowledge of the British language, to determine geography by etymology. He died in 1723. p. 2Lewis Bayly, an eminent prelate, was a native of Caermarthen, and studied at Oxford. He was appointed chaplain to Henry Prince of Wales, son of James the First, to whom he dedicated a religious work, entitled the Practice of Piety, which has passed through a vast number of editions. He was rector of St. Matthews church, in London, and afterwards bishop of Bangor; and died in 1631. His son, ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 39152
Author: Williams, Robert
Release Date: Mar 15, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English