Jasper Fisher
Jasper Fisher (fl. 1639), was an English divine and dramatist.
Life
Fisher was born in 1591, the son of William Fisher of
Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 13 November 1607; he was admitted B.A. 28 January 1610-11, M.A. 27 January 1613-14, B.D. and D.D. 1639.[2]
Fisher held at Magdalen College the post of divinity or philosophy reader (Wood).
The exact date of Fisher's death is 1643. According to Oldys's manuscript notes to Gerard Langbaine he became blind, whether from old age or an accident is not known. He married Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. William Sams of Burstead, Essex. Gideon Fisher, who went to Oxford in 1634 and succeeded to the estate at Carleton, was the son, not of Jasper, but of Jasper's elder brother Gideon[3]
Works
About 1631 (according to
Malachi 2 v. 7, 1636, and 'The Priest's Duty and Dignity, preached at the Triennial Visitation in Ampthill
18 August 1635, by J. F., presbyter and rector of Wilden in Bedfordshire, and published by command,' London, 1636.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Emily Tennyson Bradley (1885โ1900). "Fisher, Jasper". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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