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Thomas Fuller (baptised 19 June 1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worthies of England , published in 1662, after his death.
Thomas Fuller – The History of the Worthies of England [14] John Heydon. The Harmony of the World [15] The English Physician's Guide [16] Adam Olearius – The Voyages & Travels of the Ambassadors (translated by John Davies, of Kidwelly) [17]
Thomas Fuller, M.D. (24 June 1654 – 17 September 1734) was a British physician, preacher and intellectual. Fuller was born in Rosehill, Sussex , and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge . [ 1 ] He practised medicine at Sevenoaks . [ 1 ]
Thomas White (c.1550–1624) was an English clergyman, founder of Sion College, London, and of White's professorship of moral philosophy at the University of Oxford. Thomas Fuller in Worthies of England acquits him of being a pluralist or usurer; he made a number of other bequests, and was noted in his lifetime for charitable gifts.
While at Berry Pomeroy, John Prince worked on his magnum opus: a biography of his home county's many notable figures, which he probably finished in 1697.The book ran to 600 pages, with woodcuts to illustrate the 191 biographies.
‘Concerning the Holy Eucharist, and the Popish Breaden-God, to the men of Rome, as well laiques as cleriques’ [in verse, London], 1625; 2nd edit. 1636; reprinted for private circulation in the ‘Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies' Library,’ 1872, with an introduction and notes by Alexander Grosart.
The 20th-century Shakespeare scholar W. W. Greg places it in the reign of Henry VI, basing his conclusion in part on Thomas Fuller's posthumously published History of the Worthies of England (1662). [151] If this is the case then the "Duke of Norfolk" referred to in the play would be Mowbray. [148]
Biographer Thomas Fuller in Histories of the Worthies of England (1662) states that he "was born not far from Taunton" in Somerset. [2] The earliest evidence providing definitive details of his life is an entry in the signature book of Oxford University documenting his matriculation at Magdalen Hall (now Hertford College) on "17 Nov., 1581 ...