The Digital Ark :: John Berkenhead

The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

Poet and pioneering journalist. Entered Oriel College, Oxford, in 1632, admitted to All Soul's College, receiving an M.A. in 1639 and becoming a fellow at the same time (1639-1648). William Laud was his patron and employer. He founded Mercurius Aulicus, a weekly "intelligencer" and England's first official news-book, which ran from January 1643 to September 1645. Probably the "John Berkenhead" who donated "An Indian Cows Tayle from Bantam" to the Oxford Anatomy School collection (9). Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi-org.cyber.usask.ca/10.1093/ref:odnb/2455 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birkenhead Donator of object(s)
Relevant locations: Educated at Oriel College, Oxford University
Member of All Souls College , Oxford University
Relationships: John Berkenhead was a employed by William Laud (1573-1645)
John Berkenhead was a source of object(s) for Oxford Anatomy School (-)

Linked manuscript items: as Mentions or references - "A Catalogue of the Benefactors to the Anatomy Schoole in Oxon. and an account of the Rarities given by each of them under their respective names," Bodleian Library Rawlinson Q e 36, Oxford University
References in Documents:

A Catalogue of the Benefactors to the Anatomy Schoole in Oxon. (Rawlinson Q.e. 36) John Berkenhead Fellow of All Souls An Indian Cows Tayle from Bantam in ye East-Indies.