Robert Bruce Cotton

Robert Bruce Cotton

male, deceased (1631)
Parliament of England, Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge, julius, caesar augustus, Member of the pre-1707 English Parliament, baronet…British Library, Cottonlibrary, Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet (January 22 1570/1-May 6 1631) was an English politician, founder of the famous Cotton library. He was of...
Laurence Nowell

Laurence Nowell

male, deceased (1576)
Cartographer, Philologist, cotton, beowulf, laurence, lawrence…Cottonlibrary
Laurence (or Lawrence) Nowell (c. 1515 - c. 1571) was an antiquarian, a cartographer and a pioneering scholar of Anglo-Saxon language and...

Richard James

male
writer, minister, English, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Newport, Isle of Wight, Cottonlibrary
Richard James (1592-1638) was an Anglican minister, poet, and librarian. He was born in Newport, Isle of Wight. In 1615 he became a...
Asser

Asser

male, 1209 years old
monk, Caerwent, Cottonlibrary, Gregory the Great, Dyfed, Kingdom of Dyfed
Asser (d. 908/909) was a Welsh monk from St. David's, Dyfed, who became Bishop of Sherborne in the 890s. In about 885 he was asked by Alfred the...