EMINENT NATIVES OF SHREWSBURY;

WITH REFERENCES TO WORKS IN WHICH THEIR BIOGRAPHIES ARE DETAILED.

“There is a history in all men’s lives.”

Shakspeare.

Name. Distinction. Born. Died. References.

Adams, Wm. divine, 1706 1789 Owen and Blakeway’s History of Shrewsbury, ii. 218. Gent. Mag. March, 1789.

Armstead, T. author, 1662 Wood’s Athenæ Oxon. iii. 661.

Arnway, John, divine and author, 1601 1653 Wood’s Athenæ Oxon. iii. 307. Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy.

Benbow, John, admiral, 1650 1702 Owen and Blakeway’s History of Shrewsbury, ii. 390. Biographia Britannica.

Blakeway, J. Brickdale, divine and topographical historian, 1765 1826 Gent. Mag. xcvi. pt. 1. p. 277.

Bowers, John, Bishop of Chichester, 1724

Bowen, James, genealogist, 1774

Bowen, John, genealogist, 1832 Gent. Mag. cii. pt. 2. p. 185.

Burney, Chas. historian of music, 1726 1726 1814 Gent. Mag. 1814. Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 388. Life by his daughter, Madame d’Arblay.

Churchyard, Thomas, poet, 1520 1604 Wood’s Athenæ. Oxon. Life prefixed to Chalmers’ edit. of Churchyard’s Chips.

Costard, Geo. divine, biblical critic, & mathematician, 1709 1782 Biographia Britannica. Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 388.

Cresset, Edw. Bishop of Llandaff 1697 1755

Davies, Sneyd, divine and poet, 1709 1769 Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury. ii. 387. Nichols’s Illustrations, i. 485.

Farmer, Hugh, presbyterian divine and author, 1714 Life by Hugh Dodson, Biogr. Brit. v. 664.

Greisley, Hen. divine and poet, 1678 Wood’s Athenæ. Oxon, iii. 1167.

Gwynn, architect,

Haynes, Jos. artist and engraver, 1830 Gent. Mag. c. pt. 1. p. 379.

Jones, Sir, Thomas, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. 1614 1692

Onslow, Rich. Speaker of the House of Commons, 1528 1571 Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 167.

Orton, Job, Non-conformist divine 1717 1783 Life by S. Palmer, prefixed to his Letters. Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 478.

Owen, Hugh, divine and topographical historian, 1760 1827 Gent. Mag. xcviii. pt. 1. p. 478.

Parkes, James, artist, 1794 1828 Gent. Mag. xcviii. pt. 1. p. 376.

Pemberton, Thomas, lawyer and author, 1763 1833 Gent. Mag. ciii. pt. 1. p. 377.

Phillips, Ambrose, poet, 1674 1749 Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 284.

Plantagenet, Rd. Duke of York, 2nd son of Edwd. IV. 1473 1483

Plantagenet, George, youngest son of Edw. IV.

Price, Samp. D.D. divine, and chaplain to James I. and Charles I. 1585 1630 Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 212.

Price, Daniel, D.D. divine, 1631 Wood’s Athenæ. Oxon.

Scott, John, Non-conformist divine,

Scott, Jona. Dr. oriental professor and author, 1753 1829 Gent. Mag. xcix. pt. 1. p. 470.

Shrewsbury, Ralph, Bishop of Bath and Wells, elect’d 1329 1363

Shrewsbury, Robert, Biographer of St. Wenefrede, flo. 1140

Shrewsbury, Robert, Bishop of Bangor, consecrated 1197 1215 Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 98.

Talbot, Thos. antiquary, 1538

Talbot, Robt. antiquary, 1558

Taylor, John, editor of Demosthenes, 1704 1776 Some Account of the antient and present State of Shrewsbury, p. 371.

Thomas, Jno. Bishop of Salisbury, translated 1761 1766 Some Account of the antient and present State of Shrewsbury, p. 374.

Tomlins, Thomas, musician and composer, 1778 1847

Turner, John, lawyer and author, 1680 Wood’s Athenæ. Oxon. iii. 1269.

Waring, John Scott, friend and defender of Warren Hastings, and author, 1749 1819

Wooley, Edw. Bishop of Clonfert, consecrated 1665 Wood’s Fasti, 54.