Eminent Natives of Shrewsbury
With References to Works in Which Their Biographies Are Detailed
“There is a history in all men’s lives.”
Shakspeare.
| Name. | Distinction. | Born. | Died. | References. |
| Adams, Wm. | divine, | 1706 | 1789 | Owen and Blakeway’s History of Shrewsbury, ii. 218. Gent. Mag. March, 1789. |
| Armstead, T. | author, | 1662 | Wood’s Athenæ Oxon. iii. 661. | |
| Arnway, John, | divine and author, | 1601 | 1653 | Wood’s Athenæ Oxon. iii. 307. Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy. |
| Benbow, John, | admiral, | 1650 | 1702 | Owen and Blakeway’s History of Shrewsbury, ii. 390. Biographia Britannica. |
| Blakeway, J. Brickdale, | divine and topographical historian, | 1765 | 1826 | Gent. Mag. xcvi. pt. 1. p. 277. |
| Bowers, John, | Bishop of Chichester, | 1724 | ||
| Bowen, James, | genealogist, | 1774 | ||
| Bowen, John, | genealogist, | 1832 | Gent. Mag. cii. pt. 2. p. 185. | |
| Burney, Chas. | historian of music, 1726 | 1726 | 1814 | Gent. Mag. 1814. Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 388. Life by his daughter, Madame d’Arblay. |
| Churchyard, Thomas, | poet, | 1520 | 1604 | Wood’s Athenæ. Oxon. Life prefixed to Chalmers’ edit. of Churchyard’s Chips. |
| Costard, Geo. | divine, biblical critic, & mathematician, | 1709 | 1782 | Biographia Britannica. Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 388. |
| Cresset, Edw. | Bishop of Llandaff | 1697 | 1755 | |
| Davies, Sneyd, | divine and poet, | 1709 | 1769 | Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury. ii. 387. Nichols’s Illustrations, i. 485. |
| Farmer, Hugh, | presbyterian divine and author, | 1714 | Life by Hugh Dodson, Biogr. Brit. v. 664. | |
| Greisley, Hen. | divine and poet, | 1678 | Wood’s Athenæ. Oxon, iii. 1167. | |
| Gwynn, | architect, | |||
| Haynes, Jos. | artist and engraver, | 1830 | Gent. Mag. c. pt. 1. p. 379. | |
| Jones, Sir, Thomas, | Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. | 1614 | 1692 | |
| Onslow, Rich. | Speaker of the House of Commons, | 1528 | 1571 | Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 167. |
| Orton, Job, | Non-conformist divine | 1717 | 1783 | Life by S. Palmer, prefixed to his Letters. Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 478. |
| Owen, Hugh, | divine and topographical historian, | 1760 | 1827 | Gent. Mag. xcviii. pt. 1. p. 478. |
| Parkes, James, | artist, | 1794 | 1828 | Gent. Mag. xcviii. pt. 1. p. 376. |
| Pemberton, Thomas, | lawyer and author, | 1763 | 1833 | Gent. Mag. ciii. pt. 1. p. 377. |
| Phillips, Ambrose, | poet, | 1674 | 1749 | Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 284. |
| Plantagenet, Rd. Duke of York, | 2nd son of Edwd. IV. | 1473 | 1483 | |
| Plantagenet, George, | youngest son of Edw. IV. | |||
| Price, Samp. D.D. | divine, and chaplain to James I. and Charles I. | 1585 | 1630 | Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 212. |
| Price, Daniel, D.D. | divine, | 1631 | Wood’s Athenæ. Oxon. | |
| Scott, John, | Non-conformist divine, | |||
| Scott, Jona. Dr. | oriental professor and author, | 1753 | 1829 | Gent. Mag. xcix. pt. 1. p. 470. |
| Shrewsbury, Ralph, | Bishop of Bath and Wells, | elect’d 1329 | 1363 | |
| Shrewsbury, Robert, | Biographer of St. Wenefrede, | flo. 1140 | ||
| Shrewsbury, Robert, | Bishop of Bangor, | consecrated 1197 | 1215 | Owen and Blakeway’s Hist. of Shrewsbury, ii. 98. |
| Talbot, Thos. | antiquary, | 1538 | ||
| Talbot, Robt. | antiquary, | 1558 | ||
| Taylor, John, | editor of Demosthenes, | 1704 | 1776 | Some Account of the antient and present State of Shrewsbury, p. 371. |
| Thomas, Jno. | Bishop of Salisbury, | translated 1761 | 1766 | Some Account of the antient and present State of Shrewsbury, p. 374. |
| Tomlins, Thomas, | musician and composer, | 1778 | 1847 | |
| Turner, John, | lawyer and author, | 1680 | Wood’s Athenæ. Oxon. iii. 1269. | |
| Waring, John Scott, | friend and defender of Warren Hastings, and author, | 1749 | 1819 | |
| Wooley, Edw. | Bishop of Clonfert, | consecrated 1665 | Wood’s Fasti, 54. |