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Bowle
John Bowle may refer to: * John Bowle (historian) (1905–1985), English historian and writer * John Bowle (writer) (1725–1788), English clergyman and scholar; the first Hispanist * John Bowle (bishop) (died 1637), English churchman and bishop of Rochester See also * John Bowles (other) {{hndis, Bowle, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bowle (writer)
John Bowle (1725–1788) was an English clergyman and scholar, known today primarily for his ground-breaking, annotated edition of the early 1600s Miguel de Cervantes novel ''Don Quixote''. He is considered to have been the first Hispanist. Life Bowle, called by his friends Don Bowle, was descended from Dr. John Bowle, bishop of Rochester. He was born on 26 October 1725 at Idmiston in Wiltshire, was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and became M.A. in 1750. He was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1776. Having entered holy orders, he obtained the vicarage of Idmiston (spelt Idemeston in his ''Don Quixote''), north of Salisbury in Wiltshire, where he died on 26 October 1788, his 63rd birthday. He had married Elizabeth, who had died at a younger age in 1759. An erudite scholar who was often in London, Bowle was acquainted with French, Spanish, and Italian literature, and accumulated a large and valuable library, sold in 1790. He was a member of Samuel Johnson's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bowle (bishop)
John Bowle (died 9 October 1637) was an English churchman and bishop of Rochester. A native of Lancashire, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship. He proceeded M.A. (1603), D.D. (1613), and was incorporated M.A. of Oxford on 9 July 1605, and D.D. on 11 July 1615. He was household chaplain to Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, and attended him through his last illness in 1612. Bowle held at one time the living of both Bradfield and Tilehurst in Berkshire. He became dean of Salisbury in July 1620, preached before the king and parliament on 3 February 1621, and was elected bishop of Rochester on 14 December 1629. He died on 9 October 1637, and his body was interred in St. Paul's Cathedral. Archbishop William Laud William Laud (; 7 October 1573 – 10 January 1645) was a bishop in the Church of England. Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by Charles I of England, Charles I in 1633, Laud was a key advocate of Caroline era#Religion, Charle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bowle (historian)
John Edward Bowle (19 December 1905 – 17 September 1985) was an English historian and writer. Education He was educated at Marlborough College. There his contemporaries included John Betjeman, who became a friend, and Anthony Blunt, about whom he was consistently negative. He was an undergraduate at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was counted as an Aesthete. Bowle left Oxford with a Third in Modern History, 1927. Career After his education, Bowle became a teacher, at Westminster School and Eton College. He had worked briefly for Horace Plunkett, a position he had pushed Betjeman out of (1929). During World War II, he worked for the Air Ministry and the Foreign Office, and later took to writing books about British history. He became a lecturer at Wadham College, Oxford, 1947-49. He then took up an appointment in 1949 as Director of the Preparatory Session of the College of Europe at Bruges, where from 1950 to 1967, he became Professor of Political Theory. He became a visiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
