Andrew Boardman (c. 1550–1639) was an English clergyman who was a minister at St. Mary's Church, Bury St. Edmunds as well as a

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Life

Boardman was a native of

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, and was born in the year 1550. He was admitted to

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as a scholar on 9 November 1568 and was matriculated as a

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. Boardman graduated from college in 1572 by completing a B.A., and went on to complete an M.A. in 1575, a B.D. in 1582, and a D.D. in 1594. He was admitted as a fellow of the Lady Margaret foundation on 12 March 1572–3. Boardman was appointed as Greek lecturer at his college on 5 September 1580. On Michaelmas he was elected one of the college preachers. He was made junior bursar of his college on 27 January 1581–2, and was appointed as minister of St. Mary's Church, Bury St. Edmunds in the same year, his first degree in divinity. Boardman lived in a house identified in the Feoffees' accounts for 1586 as "next St. James steple". Boardman vacated the

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in 1586, and removed to a benefice then known as Allchurch, near

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. He was appointed by the municipality as vicar of St Mary's Church, Warwick on 11 January 1590–1, as successor to Leonard Fetherston. At Warwick he came into dispute with Thomas Cartwright, master of the Earl of Leicester's Hospital.Brook, Life of Cartwright, &c. 311 The literary result of the controversy was ''The Fan of the Faithful to tries the Truth in Controversies; collected by A. B.; dedicated by James Price''. In 1594

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granted Boardman a

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However, he was succeeded at St Mary's by Thomas Hull in 1595, and nothing is known of his subsequent activities. The authors of ''Athenæ Cantabrigienses'' identified Boardman as the writer of some English

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s, to which the initials A. B. are subscribed, prefixed to

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's (1597) ''Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke'', though the ''

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'' judges that "the attribution seems highly unlikely".Arthur H. Grant
‘Boardman, Andrew (d. in or after 1595)’
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'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 27 Feb 2011

References

Notes Bibliography * {{DEFAULTSORT:Boardman, Andrew 1550 births 1639 deaths Clergy from Lancashire 16th-century English Anglican priests 17th-century English clergy Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge