1626 University of Cambridge Chancellor election information

The election for the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge, 1626, chose a new Chancellor of the university. There were two candidates for the post...

April 1626), known as Lord Verulam between 1618 and 1621, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England...

21 October 1626) was an English academic and physician, Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 1619 and Regius Professor of Physic. He was...

Richard Cromwell (4 October 1626 – 12 July 1712) was an English statesman, the second and final Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and...

1326), Bishop of Exeter "Carew or Cary, Valentine (CRW585V)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. "Valentine Carey (D. 1626) | StJohns"...

Ellesmere, who was both chancellor of the university and Lord Chancellor of England. Laud was chaplain to Richard Neile, who was Clerk of the Closet. Eventually...

most of the cubic plane curves. Newton was a fellow of Trinity College and the second Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He...

master of Peterhouse, Cambridge; and in 1640 he became vice-chancellor of the university. In October of this year he was promoted to the deanery of Peterborough...

posts of Lord Chancellor of Ireland and Clerk of the Crown in Ireland. The Lord Chancellor of Ireland was responsible for calling elections of representative...

as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times, for over 12 years. Gladstone was born in Liverpool to Scottish parents. He first entered the House of Commons...

of conduct and of conscience, was a new thing in Protestantism. Having continued twelve years at Franeker (where he was rector in 1626), his health gave...

Laud, as President (i.e. head) of St John's College, and in 1626 and 1627 he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Juxon soon obtained other...

William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen and Chancellor of Scotland, petitioned Pope Alexander VI on behalf of James IV, King of Scots to establish King's...

of Erroll Duke of Norfolk Lord Ruthven of Freeland Earl of Effingham Baron Howard de Walden Earl of Suffolk (1603 creation) Earl of Berkshire (1626 creation)...

the rights of the scholars at the University of Oxford. By 1216 a chancellor of the university is in office. 1215 – 16–23 July: A council of the barons...

Chancellorship of his alma mater in 1626. The entire college voted for the duke's installment as chancellor. The election created national controversy as...

of conflicts between Poland and Sweden in 1600–1611, 1617–1618, and 1621–1625, all of which ended in a stalemate, Gustavus Adolphus invaded in 1626 to...