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Beale, William, d. 1650
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d. 1650
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BEALE, WILLIAM, of Oxfordshire; brother of Rev. Jerome Beale DD, Master of Pembroke Coll. Cambridge; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1605, adm. scholar 1606, matr. Easter 1606; 9th in ordo 1609/10; BA 1609/10; migrated to Jesus Coll.; Fellow of Jesus 1611-25; MA 1613 (incorp. Oxford 15 Jul 1617); BD 1620; DD 1627 (incorp. Oxford 1645); ordained; Archdeacon of Carmarthen 1623; Master of Jesus Coll. Cambridge 14 Jul 1632-4, Master of St. John’s Coll. Cambridge 20 Feb 1633/4; Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge Univ. 1634; Rector of Cottingham, Northants., from 4 Feb 1624/5; Rector of Paulerspury, Northants., 31 Oct 1637; sinecure Rector of Aberdaron, Caernarvonshire, 1639; got into trouble with the Puritan party for embellishing St. John’s Coll. Chapel with “Romish adornments”; arrested Sep 1642 for sending away the college plate to the King at Nottingham, and imprisoned in the Tower of London; deprived of Mastership of St. John’s 13 Mar 1643/4, and of his other eccclesiastical preferments, but liberated from the Tower after three years’ imprisonment and joined the King at Oxford; nominated by the King Dean of Ely c. Mar. 1646, but never installed; chaplain to Sir Edward Hyde (afterwards Lord Clarendon) in his embassy to Spain 1649-50; a very successful tutor, and, according to Baker, “one of the best governors the University or College ever had”; d. at Madrid 1 Oct 1650. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.