JOHN SNELL (1629-1679)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V25,
Page 293
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
JOHN SNELL (1629-1679)
, founder of the Snell exhibitions at See also: - OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
, was born in 1629 in Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of a blacksmith
.
He joined the royalists during the civil war, and fought in several battles, including Worcester
.
Thereafter he took refuge in Cheshire, where he met Sir Orlando Bridgeman, whose clerk he became, being raised to the offices of court-crier and seal- bearer as his patron was promoted to those of judge and Lord Keeper
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Later he was secretary to the Duke of Monmouth and had the management of his Scottish estates
.
He died at Oxford on the 6th of August 1679, leaving a bequest for sending students from Glasgow University to an Oxford college or See also: - HALL
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
.
The Court of Chancery decided in 1693 that Balliol should receive the beneficiaries
.
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