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Isaac Bargrave, Dean of Canterbury (c. 12 Jun 1586 - 1643)

Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1370 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Bargrave Relationships: John Bargrave (1610-1680) was a nephew of Isaac Bargrave
Robert Bargrave (1628-1661) was a son of Isaac Bargrave
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Isaac Bargrave
References in Documents:
Bargrave's catalogue: Rara, Antiqua, et Numismata Bargraviana (Canterbury Cathedral Lit MS E 16a) [*] Cornelius Jansen “in 1636 and the next following years resided with Sir Arnold Braems, a Flemish merchant at Bridge [Place], near Canterbury.” (Dallaway’s note in Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting in England, ii. 10, Lond. 1828.) His portrait of Dean Bargrave is in the Deanery at Canterbury, and was lent for the National Portrait Exhibition of 1866.
Bargrave's Travel Diary (Canterbury Cathedral CCA U11/8)

31. On Saturday the last of May I had an opportunety to talke aboue an howre wthith the Marquess of Newcastle, and after that wthith the Earle of Yarmouth and the Lord German whoe for the memorie of my vncle the Deane of Canterburie vsed me exceeding courteously. Mrr. Cooly of Trin Coll Camb. was the secretarie to the Lord,: