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Whitehall, Robert, 1625-1685
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1625-1685
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WHITEHALL, ROBERT, second son of Rev. Robert Whitehall, Rector of Addington, Bucks., and his first wife; bapt. 18 Mar 1625; adm.; KS 1639; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1643, Westminster Student; BA 1647; ejected from his Studentship by Parliamentary Visitors for non-submission 7 Jul 1648; afterwards submitted; Fellow of Merton Coll. from 1651, Sub-Warden in 1671; MA 1652; when “Terrae Filius” in 1655 he derided the Puritan discipline under which the University was then governed; MB 7 Sep 1657 (by letters from Richard Cromwell, Chancellor of the University); allowed leave of absence in 1657 to give instruction at Trinity Coll. Dublin (Brodrick, Memorials of Merton, 106); licensed to practice medicine 21 Jun 1665; Wood describes him as “no better than a meer poetaster, and time serving poet”, who made “divers sallies into the practice of physic” (Ath. Oxon., iv, 177); author Technepolemogamia, or the Marriage of Arms and Art, and other minor poems; d. 8 Jul 1685. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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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.