Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

male, deceased (1679)
Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 - 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, whose famous 1651 book "Leviathan" established the agenda for nearly all... More
Search For: English Former student of Magdalen Hall, Oxford philosopher state of nature leviathan Philosophical anthropology
William Tyndale

William Tyndale

male, deceased (1536)
William Tyndale (sometimes spelled Tindall or Tyndall) (ca. 1494-September 6, 1536) was a 16th century Protestant reformer and scholar who... More
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John Wilkins

John Wilkins

male, deceased (1672)
John Wilkins (1614-01-01 - 1672-11-19), an English clergyman, is the only person to have headed a college at both the University of Oxford and the... More
Search For: University of Oxford Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford University of Cambridge Robina Cromwell Royal Society Former student of Magdalen Hall, Oxford
Samuel Daniel

Samuel Daniel

male, deceased (1619)
Samuel Daniel (1562 - October 14, 1619) was an English poet and historian.
Search For: Sonneteers Former student of Magdalen Hall, Oxford Baron Stafford Hertford College The Complaint of Rosamond philosophy
Robert Plot

Robert Plot

male, deceased (1696)
Robert Plot (13 December 1640-April 30 1696) was an English naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first... More
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Edward Hyde 1st Earl of Clarendon

male, deceased (1674)
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (18 February 1609-9 December 1674) was an English historian, statesman and grandfather of two queens regnant,... More
Search For: University of Oxford Grittenham, Wiltshire Lord Lieutenant Lord High Steward Chancellor of the University of Oxford Grittenham