SALESBURY (SALISBURY), HENRY (1561 - 1637?), grammarian
Date of birth: 1561
Date of death: 1637?
Gender: Male
Occupation: grammarian
Area of activity: Scholarship and Languages
Author: Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams
Born in Henllan parish, Denbighshire, his family being a branch of the old Lleweni family. He graduated in Oxford University (S. Alban Hall), studied medicine, and followed the profession of a physician. Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd refers to him as ' medicus doctis annumerandus.'
In 1593 he published his Welsh grammar, Grammatica Britannica (London). It is also recorded that he had begun another work, a Welsh-Latin dictionary called ' Geirva Tavod Cymraec.' There are Welsh and Latin lines written by him in the form of a cywydd at the beginning of Egluryn Phraethineb, 1595, by Henry Perri - see the edition of that book published by the University of Wales Press, 1930.
He is believed to have been the Henry Salesbury who died at Chester, 6 October 1637.
Author
- Sir Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams, (1887)
- D. L. Thomas, Salisbury or Salesbury, Henry, (1561–1637?), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 1897
Sources
- Branwen Jarvis, Salesbury [Salisbury], Henry, (b. 1560/61, d. in or after 1632), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
Further reading
Published date: 1959
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