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CARKESSE, JAMES, son of James Carkesse, Hackney, Middlesex, and of City of London, Turkey merchant, and Mary, dau. of Rowland Beresford, London; b.; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1648; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1652, matr. 26 Jan 1652/3, Westminster Student; BA 3 Feb 1656/7; MA 1659; refused grace for BA four times, and before his admission was compelled to apologise for some insult which he had offered his college; in 1658 Busby certified that Carkesse “is of the same standing as those Westminster scholars who take the MA degree this Act 1658”, and that he “was only hindered from residence by the tenuity of his fortunes, which compelled him to reside in Westminster College for a maintenance, and to wait five terms for admission to a student’s place, to which he was elected” (CSP Dom 1658-9, 40); Usher, Magdalen Coll. Sch. 1655, 5 Jan 1662/3-3, Head Master 1663-4; a clerk in the Seamen’s Ticket Office, Navy Office, Aug 1665 - Mar 1667, Mar 1668 - Sep 1670, Mar 1672 - Jun 1673; confined to Bedlam, but released in 1678; Head Master, Chelmsford Sch., 1683; FRS 23 Mar 1663/4, expelled 18 Nov 1675; author, Lucida Intervalla, containing divers miscellaneous poems written at Finsbury and Bethlem by the doctor’s patient extraordinary, 1679; lic. to m. 23 Nov 1663 Arabella Walesson, St. Faith’s, London. DNB.
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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.