Edmund Bohun
Edmund Bohun (1645–1699) was an English writer on history and politics, a publicist in the Tory interest.[1]
Life
Great Britain
Edmund Bohun was born on March 12, 1644/5 in Ringsfield, Suffolk, England.[2] He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge.[3] He married Mary Brampton (d. 1719) on July 26, 1669.[3] They had a single child, Nicholas (1679-1718) who died in Carolina.[3]
In the late 1660s, Bohun became associated with
In reply to
In 1692, Bohun was appointed Licenser of the Press, a position as pre-publication censor. He ran into trouble in the case of an anonymous pamphlet called, King William and Queen Mary Conquerors which was really by
America
He emigrated to Carolina, becoming in 1698 the first recorded Chief Justice of (south) Carolina there, based in Charleston.[11]
On October 5, 1699, Bohun died of
In 1885, Bohun's diary and autobiography were published by S. Wilton Rix. [2]
Works
- Bohun, Edmund (1682). An address to the free-men and free-holders of the nation. .
- A defence of Sir Robert Filmer, against the mistakes and misrepresentations of Algernon Sidney, esq. in a paper delivered by him to the sheriffs upon the scaffold on Tower-Hill, on Fryday December the 7th 1683 before his execution there. (1684)
- A Geographical Dictionary, Representing the Present and Ancient Names of All the Countries, Provinces, Remarkable Cities ...: And Rivers of the Whole World: Their Distances, Longitudes and Latitudes (1688)
- The history of the desertion, or, An account of all the publick affairs in England, from the beginning of September 1688, to the twelfth of February following with an answer to a piece call'd The desertion discussed, in a letter to a country gentleman (1690)
- The Character of Queen Elizabeth, or, A full and clear account of her policies, and the methods of her government both in church and state: her virtue and defects, together with the characters of her principal ministers of state, and the greatest part of the affairs and events that happened in her times (1693)
- The justice of peace, his calling and qualifications (1693)
Notes
- ^ Stephen, Leslie (1886). Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 306–307. . In
- ^ a b c S. Wilton Rix, The Diary and Autobiography of Edmund Bohun Esq (1885)
- ^ a b c "Eminent alumni | Queens' College".
- ^ a b Andrew Pyle (editor), Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers (2000), article on Bohun, pp. 105-7.
- ^ Mark Goldie and Robert Wokler (editors), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-century Political Thought (2006), p. 46.
- ^ Tony Claydon, Europe and the Making of England, 1660-1760 (2007), p. 247 note 116.
- ^ J. P. Kenyon, Revolution Principles: The Politics of Party 1680-1720 (1977), p. 31.
- ^ "Anecdote about Edmund Bohun (1645-1699) by Macaulay (1899)".
- ^ David Hayton, Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley, The House of Commons, 1690-1715: Volume 1 (2002), p. 1066.
- ^ Evan Whitton, Patrick Cook, The Cartel: Lawyers and Their Nine Magic Tricks (1998), p. 60.
- ^ Charles Warren, History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America (1908), p. 109.
Further reading
- Samuel Wilton Rix (editor) (1853), The Diary and Autobiography of Edmund Bohun Esq.[1]
- Mark Goldie, ‘Edmund Bohun and Jus Gentium in the Revolution Debate, 1689-1693’, The Historical Journal, 20 (1977), pp. 569–86.
- Mark Goldie, ‘Charles Blount's Intention in Writing "King William and Queen Mary Conquerors" (1693)’, Notes and Queries 223 (1978): pp. 527–32.
- ^ "The diary and autobiography of Edmund Bohun, esq. With an introductory memoir, notes, and illustrations". Beccles [Eng.] Priv. print. by R.Crisp. 1853.