STUBBE, HENRY, son of Rev. Henry Stubbe, Rector of Partney, Lincs.; b. 28 Feb 1631/2; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1649, matr. 13 Feb 1650/1, Westminster Student to ejection 1660; according to Wood, Sir Henry Vane (qv) “got him to be a King’s Scholar” and also “got him to be sped for a Student’s place in Christ Church, where shewing himself too forward, pragmatical and conceited (being well stock’d with impudence at school), was often kick’d and beaten”; whipped in the Public Refectory in 1651 for abusing the Censor Morum, and for “his impudence in other respects” (Wood, Ath. Oxon., iii, 1068); BA 1653; MA 1656; served in the Parliamentary Army in Scotland 1653-5; Second Keeper of the Bodleian Library, Oxford 1657–9, when deprived of post for writing A Light shining out of Darkness, a “pestilent book” against the clergy and universities; retired to Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, where he practised medicine; King’s Physician, Jamaica 1661; afterwards practised at Warwick and Bath; imprisoned for denouncing the Duke of York’s marriage with Mary of Modena in the Paris Gazette, 1673; an intimate friend of Thomas Hobbes; described by Wood as “the most noted Latinist and Grecian of his age” (ibid., iii, 1071); author, The Commonwealth of Oceana put into a Balance and found too light, 1660, and other works; drowned near Bath, Somerset 12 Jul 1676. DNB.
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