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

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Owen John, Bishop of St Asaph (1580 - 1651)

Laudian clergyman. Leith-Ross suggests he was probably the "Doctor Owin" named as a benefactor in Musaeum Tradescantianum (171). He was a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and proceeded M.A. D.D. in 1618. Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi-org.cyber.usask.ca/10.1093/ref:odnb/21014 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Owen_(bishop_of_St_Asaph) Relevant locations: Birth place in Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire
Member of Jesus College (Cambridge), Cambridge University
Title (royalty or holy order) St. Asaph, Denbighshire
 Linked print sources: as Mentioned or referenced by - The John Tradescants: Gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen .
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