Price, John, 1600-1676

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Price, John, 1600-1676

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        1600-1676

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        PRICE, JOHN; b. London 1600; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1617, Westminster Student to 1622, but did not matr.; became a Roman Catholic; accompanied Hon. Thomas Howard to Italy, where he obtained LLD degree; went to Ireland with Lord Strafford and bacame a friend of Archbishop Ussher; edited the Apologia of Apuleius, published at Paris in 1635; made excerpts from the Greek MSS in the Imperial Library at Vienna 1637; wrote pamphlets in royalist interest during Civil War, for which he was briefly imprisoned; went abroad; settled at Florence c. 1652 as Keeper of Medals to Ferdinand II, Grand Duke of Tuscany; Professor of Greek, Univ. Pisa; moved to Rome, where he found a patron in Cardinal Francesco Barberini; a fine scholar, and, according to Wood, “the greatest critic of his time” (Athenae Oxonienses, iii, 1105); author of two books on Apuleius, published 1635 and 1650, and other works; d. at Rome c. 1676. DNB.

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        GB-2014-WSA-14250

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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.

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