Thomas Blague
Thomas Blague (or Blage) (c.1545–1611) was an English churchman and author. He was the dean of Rochester beginning in 1592.
Life
He matriculated at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1568. He is believed to have graduated B.A and was B.D. from Oxford in 1574. He then received his D.D. from Cambridge in 1589.[1]
He was admitted on 9 September 1570 to the rectory of
In 1602 he, as dean, presented John Wallis (or Wallys), father of the more famous Dr.
Works
He was the author in early life of A Schoole of wise Conceytes.[2] It is a collection of fables in the style of Aesop, and is thought to have drawn on material related to the Dialogus creaturarum. He actually used 19 authors, both classical and Renaissance humanists including Erasmus.[3] In 1603 he printed and published a sermon on I Psalm i. 1-2, which had been preached at the Charter House.
Notes
- ^ "Thomas Blague (BLG568T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ A Schoole of wise Conceytes. Wherein as euery conceyte hath wit, so the most haue much mirth, set forth in common places by order of the alphabet. Translated out of diuers Greeke and Latin wryters by Thomas Blage, student of the Queenes Colledge in Cambridge. Printed at London by Henry Bynneman, 1572.
- ^ Peter Hunt, Dennis Butts, Children's Literature: an illustrated history (1995), p. 13.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Blague, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co.