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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, 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 ]
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]
The history of the worthies of England, Volume 2 By Thomas Fuller; Various authors (1890). The English historical review. Longman. [full citation needed] Burke, John (1831). A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance. England. Oxford University. Green, Judith A. (1990).
The only other "independent original" source documenting Fuller's abilities besides Rush is Fuller's obituary. [2] Fuller's obituary, published anonymously in the Columbian Centinel in 1790, tells how he could mentally calculate correct answers to complicated questions faster than people calculating by hand could. [ 3 ]
Thomas Kingston, the financier husband of Lady Gabriella Kingston, has died suddenly at the age of 45, Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday. Kingston married into Britain’s most famous family in ...
Thomas Fuller notes in Worthies of England that Feckenham was the last clergyman to be "locally surnamed". [1] His early education came from the parish priest, but he was sent at an early age to the cloister school at Evesham Abbey, and from there, at age eighteen, to Gloucester Hall, Oxford, as a Benedictine student.
He was born in York, according to the Worthies of Thomas Fuller. Fuller also says he gained the nickname “green-head” when a young preacher at Paul's Cross , attacking inequality. He preached against the Lord Mayor, too, in 1603, when he was a lecturer at St Augustine Watling Street in London.