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JOHN SNELL (1629-1679)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 293 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:SNELL (1629-1679)  , founder of the See also:Snell exhibitions at See also:Oxford, was See also:born in 1629 in See also:Ayrshire, See also:Scotland, the son of a blacksmith . He joined the royalists during the See also:civil See also:war, and fought in several battles, including See also:Worcester . Thereafter he took See also:refuge in See also:Cheshire, where he met See also:Sir Orlando Bridgeman, whose clerk he became, being raised to the offices of See also:court-crier and See also:seal-See also:bearer as his See also:patron was promoted to those of See also:judge and See also:Lord Keeper . Later he was secretary to the See also:Duke of See also:Monmouth and had the management of his Scottish estates . He died at Oxford on the 6th of See also:August 1679, leaving a See also:bequest for sending students from See also:Glasgow University to an Oxford See also:college or See also:hall . The Court of See also:Chancery decided in 1693 that Balliol should receive the beneficiaries .

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