Robert Hegge
Robert Hegge (1599–1629) was an English academic and antiquary.
Life
Born at Durham in 1599, he was the son of Stephen Hegge, notary public there, by Anne, daughter of Robert Swyft, LL.D., prebendary of Durham. On 7 November 1614, he was admitted scholar of Corpus Christi College, and graduated B.A. on 13 February 1617 and M.A. on 17 March 1620. He was elected probationer fellow of his college on 27 December 1624, but died suddenly on 11 June 1629, and was buried in Corpus Christi Chapel.[1]
Works
Hegge wrote a ‘Treatise of Dials and Dialling,’ preserved in the college library, to which he also presented a manuscript of
A third treatise by Hegge, entitled Saint Cvthbert; or the Histories of his Chvrches at Lindisfarne, Cvncacestre, and Dvnholme, was written in 1625 and 1626. Richard Baddeley, private secretary to
See also
- N-Town Plays, known as the Hegge cycle.
References
- ^ a b c Goodwin 1891.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Goodwin, Gordon (1891). "Hegge, Robert". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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