WARING, ROBERT, son of Edmund Waring, The Lea, Staffs., and Mary, dau. of Richard Broughton, Owlbury, Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire; b.; adm.; KS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1630, matr. 24 Feb 1631/2, aged 18, Westminster Student (still 1642); BA 1634; MA 1637; bore arms for Royalist side during siege of Oxford; Proctor 1647; Camden Professor of Ancient History, Oxford Univ., 2 Aug 1647; took an active part in resisting Parliamentary Visitors and ordered into custody, but escaped by flight; “adjudged guilty of high contempt, and denyall of authority of Parliament”, and ordered to be removed as Proctor and Camden Professor 14 Sep 1648 (Burrows, 185-6); retired to Apley, Shropshire; travelled with Sir William Whitmore in France; a Latin and English poet; author, Amoris Effigies, 1648, and other works; d. unm. 10 May 1658. DNB.
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