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Elias Ashmole
Title: Elias Ashmole
Category: History
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Elias Ashmole
His father, Simon Ashmole, was an artisan and a saddler, but he spent more time as a soldier in Ireland and on the continent. Elias implies that he plunged the family into poverty although he did inherit a house from him.
He was educated at Lichfield grammar school with legal training in London, 1633-8. Ashmole studied in Oxford in 1645, and was a member of Brasenose College. He took no degree, but he must have developed a …showed first 75 words of 1007 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1007 total…the initial source of the Ashmolean Museum.
He was deeply interested in the medicinal uses of plants and a member of the Royal Society in 1661, although not active.
Sources
Elias Ashmole, 5 vols., ed. with a biographical introduction by C.H.Josten, (Oxford, 1966). Volume one is the biography.
Dictionary of National Biography (repr., London: Oxford University Press, 1949-1950), 1, 644-6.
Biographia Britannica, 7 vols. (London, 1747-63), 1, 223-36.
Compiled by Richard S. Westfall Department of the History and Philosophy of Science Indiana University.
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