Alcock, Simon (d. 1459), scholastic author, was educated at Oxford, where he had proceeded MA by 1422 and DD by 1427, at which date he composed the De arte dictaminis, now MS 184.4 of the library of St John's College, Oxford. He may also have composed the ...
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R. M. Armstrong
Argall, John (b. in or before 1545, d. 1606), Church of England clergyman and logician, was born in London, the third son of Thomas Argall (1499/1500–1563), ecclesiastical official, and of Margaret (d. 1592), daughter of John Tallakarne or Talkerne of Cornwall. Near the end of ...
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Raymond Klibansky
Balsham, Adam of [Adam de Parvo Ponte] (1100x02
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Damian R. Leader
Barker, John (fl. c. 1471–1482), logician, is first recorded as a king's scholar at Eton College about 1471, who subsequently entered King's College in 1474, was elected a fellow in 1477, and graduated MA in 1479. His Etonian connection may indicate that he was from the south of ...
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John M. Fletcher
Bate, John (d. 1430), logician and theologian, was, according to Leland, born west of the Severn (perhaps in the Welsh marches), but educated at the Carmelite convent in York. As a Carmelite friar he was a member of the London convent when he was ordained deacon by ...
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Billingham [Bullingham], Richard (fl. c. 1344–c. 1361), logician and theologian, was associated with Merton College, Oxford, as a fellow from c.1344 until c.1361. He held many offices at the college, was sub-warden for several years and is said to have presented to the college library tables on logic and philosophy that he had probably compiled himself; this material does not appear to have survived. He obtained from the university the degrees of MA and BTh. In March 1349, following the election of ...
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I. Grattan-Guinness
Boole, George (1815–1864), mathematician and logician, was born on 2 November 1815 in Lincoln, the eldest of four children of a local tradesman, John Boole (1777–1848), and his wife, Mary Ann (1780–1854). He adopted a love of learning from his father, who was active in the local mechanics' institute, to such an extent that in his teens he was employed as a teacher at schools in ...
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John M. Fletcher
Bricmore, H. (d. 1382
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Bryan, John (b. 1492/3, d. after 1521), logician, was a native of London. His family connections are unknown, but he was acquainted with Pietro Carmeliano, Latin secretary to Henry VII, and may have been his protégé. In 1505 he was sent to Eton College...
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Buchanan, Robert (1786–1873), logician and playwright, was a cadet of the clan Buchanan. He was born on 16 February 1786 at Trean, Callander, the son of John Buchanan, a farmer. He graduated MA from the University of Glasgow in 1808, where he specially distinguished himself in the philosophy classes. He was for a period tutor in the family of ...
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Richard Copsey
Burley, John (d. 1332), Carmelite friar and logician, joined the order in Stamford, and studied at Oxford University, where he incepted as DTh. In 1303 he was one of the Carmelite doctors who supported the provincial William Ludlington in his resistance to the decision of the general chapter establishing the Irish and Scottish houses as a separate province. At the provincial chapter in 1305, presided over by two German Carmelites sent by the prior-general, ...
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E. J. Ashworth
Carter, Peter (1530
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Michael J. Fitzgerald
Chilmark, John (d. 1396), logician, was of unknown origins. Almost nothing can be said of his life, except that he had become a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, by 1386, and, that, having been made an MA, he rented schools from Exeter College...
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Roland Hall
Coke, Zachary (bap. 1618
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Crakanthorpe, Richard (bap. 1568, d. 1624), Church of England clergyman and logician, was born at Little Strickland, Westmorland, and baptized on 25 January 1568 at Morland, the second son of John Crakanthorpe and Mabel Cowper. He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, on 13 December 1583, aged sixteen. According to ...
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Alexander Broadie
Cranston, William (c. 1513–1562), logician, is first recorded at Paris, where he became a regent in arts and then rector of the university. He later returned to his native Scotland, to the University of St Andrews, where he was provost of St Salvator's College...
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E. J. Ashworth
Feribrigge, Richard (fl. 1361–1367), logician, was an Oxford MA who became rector of Shelton in Nottinghamshire in 1361, and rector of Cotgrave in the same county in 1367. No other details of his life are known, but his works show that he continued earlier traditions of ...
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Finlayson, James (1758–1808), Church of Scotland minister and university teacher, was born on 2 March 1758 at his family's farm at Nether Cambushenie, Dunblane, Perthshire, the eldest son of William Finlayson. He was educated first at a local school in Kinbuck, then at the grammar school in ...
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Fland [Flanders], Robert (fl. 1335–1370), logician, may have been of Flemish origin. He has left three treatises (Consequentiae, Insolubilia, and Obligationes), preserved in codex 497 of the Stadsbibliothek at Bruges. This manuscript provides most of the very limited information there is concerning ...
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