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BUSBY, JOHN, son of Timothy Busby, and nephew of Richard Busby (elected to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1624, qv); b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1641; KS in 1644; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1647, but detained at school “through the exigence of warre” (Register of Visitors of the Univ. of Oxford 1647 to 1658, Camden Society, 2nd ser., xxix, 268), Westminster Student; BA 1650; MA 1652; apparently expelled by the Parliamentary Visitors for neglecting to appear before them 1650, but restored by them in 1651; deprived of his studentship for a half year on account of a speech which he made at a funeral, “contayning matter of profanation and abuse of scripture” 8 Nov 1653 (ibid., 370-1); became a “fugitive” from Christ Church, but was again restored 6 Nov 1655; sometime an Usher at the School; described by Edward Bagshaw (KS 1644, qv) in his pamphlet of 1659 as “a worthless and infamous person”, who “grossly abused the liberty of whipping”, but Bagshaw’s opinion of the nephew of the Head Master was probably not free from bias; living 1660.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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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.