EVANS, EDWARD (born 1582) theologian

Name: Edward Evans
Date of birth: 1582
Gender: Male
Occupation: theologian
Area of activity: Religion
Author: Walter Thomas Morgan

a son of a cleric, born and educated at Llanrwst, Denbighshire, he entered Christ Church, Oxford, in 1598 at the age of sixteen. He graduated B.A., 16 February 1603-4 and M.A., 1606-7. Anthony Wood mistakes him for another cleric of the same name, also the son of a cleric but from Hampshire and a famous preacher in the University who published a book of sermons in 1615, Verba Dierum or the Dayes report of God's glory …

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Published date: 2001

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