Thomas Bedwell

Last updated

Thomas Bedwell (died April 1595) was an English mathematician and military engineer.

Bedwell matriculated as a sizar of Trinity College, Cambridge in November 1562. He became a scholar in the same year; in 1566–7 he took the degree of B.A.; he was subsequently elected fellow; and in 1570 commenced M.A. [1] He was appointed to the office of keeper of the ordnance stores in the Tower. He is said to have been the first to project 'the bringing of the waters of the Lea from Ware to London.' In conjunction with Frederico Genebelli he was employed as a military engineer in strengthening the works at Tilbury and Gravesend at the time of the Spanish Armada. He died in April 1595.

Thomas Bedwell was uncle of William Bedwell, the Arabic scholar, who speaks of him as 'our English Tycho.' The two are sometimes confounded, chiefly, it would appear, on account of an ambiguity on the title-page of the first of two works published by the nephew in explanation of a 'ruler' or mesolabium architectonicum which the uncle had devised to facilitate carpenters' calculations. [2]

Related Research Articles

Julius Caesar (judge) English judge and statesman

Sir Julius Caesar was an English lawyer, judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1622. He was also known as Julius Adelmare.

Thomas Digges was an English mathematician and astronomer. He was the first to expound the Copernican system in English but discarded the notion of a fixed shell of immoveable stars to postulate infinitely many stars at varying distances. He was also first to postulate the "dark night sky paradox".

Thomas Craig (jurist)

Sir Thomas Craig of Riccarton was a Scottish jurist and poet.

John Peile

John Peile was an English philologist.

Robert Tounson — also seen as “Townson” and “Toulson” — was Dean of Westminster from 1617 to 1620, and later Bishop of Salisbury from 1620 to 1621. He attended Sir Walter Raleigh at his execution, and wrote afterwards of how Raleigh had behaved on that occasion.

William Whitaker (theologian)

William Whitaker was a prominent Protestant Calvinistic Anglican churchman, academic, and theologian. He was Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, and a leading divine in the university in the latter half of the sixteenth century. His uncle was Alexander Nowell, the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral and catechist.

Martin Fotherby English clergyman

Martin Fotherby was an English clergyman, who became Bishop of Salisbury.

Samuel Bolton

Samuel Bolton was an English clergyman and scholar, a member of the Westminster Assembly and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge.

Augustine Lindsell was an English classical scholar and Bishop of Hereford. In church matters he was advanced by Richard Neile, and was a firm supporter of William Laud. As a scholar he influenced Thomas Farnaby.

Nicholas Bownde, Bownd or Bound was an English clergyman, known for his Christian Sabbatarian writings.

Roger Goad (1538–1610) was an English academic theologian, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and three times Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

Thomas Adam was a Church of England clergyman and religious writer.

Francis Dee was an English churchman and Bishop of Peterborough from 1634.

Henry John Rose was an English churchman, theologian of High Church views, and scholar who became archdeacon of Bedford.

Thomas Whincop was an English compiler of theatrical history.

Daniel Dyke was an English academic, a Puritan of the reign of James I.

Henry Thomas Riley was an English translator, lexicographer, and antiquary.

John Richardson (bishop of Ardagh)

John Richardson (1580–1654) was an English bishop of the Church of Ireland.

References

  1. "Bedwell, Thomas (BDWL562T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. See the Macclesfield collection of Corresp. of Scient. Men, Oxford, 1841, p.1ff.
Attribution

Wikisource-logo.svg This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "Bedwell, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.