Meredith Hanmer
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Meredith Hanmer (1543–1604) was a
Trinity College, Dublin.[1]
Life
The son of Richard ap David ap Howel Goch of Pentre-pant, Selattyn, near
Porkington in Shropshire in 1543. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford
, where he obtained a chaplaincy in 1567, and graduated B.A. 1568, M.A. 1572, and D.D. 1582. On 7 June 1575, by a special dispensation, he was allowed to supplicate for the degree of B.D., as a nobleman's chaplain, while of less than the customary standing; but the degree was not granted till 1581.
He was vicar of
banns
or license.
He crossed over to Ireland about 1591. In that year he appears as archdeacon of Ross and vicar of
college of the Blessed Mary of Youghal
in the diocese of Cloyne (ib. 6345). He appears to have resigned this and his prebend of St. Michan's in 1602. On 16 June 1603 he was appointed chancellor of the cathedral church of St. Canice, Kilkenny, and at the same time vicar of Fiddown and St. John the Evangelist, and rector of Aglish-Martin.
He died in 1604, and was buried in
St. Michan's Church, Dublin. It is likely that he fell a victim to the bubonic plague
. Hanmer married at Shoreditch, 21 June 1581, Mary Austin, by whom he had four daughters.
Works
His Chronicle of Ireland, first published by
Sir James Ware in 1633, is a scholarly work.[5] He translated three early ecclesiastical historians - Eusebius, Socrates of Constantinople and Evagrius Scholasticus - in 1576.[6]
Hanmer also wrote:
- The Great Bragge and Challenge of M. Champion ... confuted and answered by M.H., London, 1581.
- The Jesuites Banner. ... With a Confutation of a late Pamphlet ... entitled A Brief Censure upon two Books written in Answeare to M. Champion's [Campion's] offer of disputation, &c., London, 1581. These were works against Edward Campion.
- The Baptizing of a Turke, a sermon (on Matt, v. 16), preached 2 October 1586 at the collegiate church of St. Katharine, London, 1586. This sermon was occasioned by the liberation of galley slaves from the Spanish Caribbean, by Sir Francis Drake, of which one became a Christian convert, rather than take the passage offered back to the Ottoman Empire.[7]
Notes
- ^ Alan Ford, James Ussher: Theology, History, and Politics in Early-Modern Ireland and England (2007), p. 54-5.
- ^ "HANMER family of Hanmer, Bettisfield, Fens and Halton, Flintshire, and Pentre-pant, Salop". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ^ "Islington | British History Online".
- ^ Cromwell, Thomas (1835). Walks through Islington. London: Sherwood, Gilbert , & Piper. pp. 79.
- ^ Online version of 1809 edition, at archive.org.
- ^ The Auncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the first Six Hundred Years after Christ, written in the Greek Tongue by three Learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius, London, 1577, fol. (by Thomas Vautrollier), dedicated to Elizabeth, countess of Lincoln (from London, 1 Sept. 1576). A second edition appeared in 1585, with a dedication to Robert, Earl of Leicester, dated from Shoreditch, 15 Dec. 1584. Other editions are dated 1607, 1633, 1636, 1663, 1683, 1692, and 1709.
- ^ David B. Quinn, Explorers and Colonies: America, 1500-1625 (1990), pp. 200-4.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Hanmer, Meredith". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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