LC control no. | n 84806371 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607 |
Variant(s) | Flemyng, Abraham, 1552?-1607 |
Associated country | England |
Located | London (England) |
Birth date | 1552? |
Death date | 16070918 |
Place of birth | London (England) |
Place of death | Bottesford (Leicestershire, England) |
Field of activity | Editing Translating and interpreting Devotional literature Church of England--Devotional literature |
Affiliation | Church of England |
Profession or occupation | Book editors Translators Protestant authors Clergy Church of England--Clergy |
Found in | LCCN 12-18544: Caius, J. The works of John Caius, 1912 (hdg.: Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607; usage: Abraham Fleming) Caius, John. Of Englishe dogges, 1576: t.p. (newly drawne into Englishe by Abraham Fleming student) Oxford DNB, 14 August 2014 (Fleming, Abraham (c.1552-1607), author, literary editor, and Church of England clergyman, identified himself as "London borne"; graduated from Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1582, after spending 5 or 6 years working in London publishing houses; during his first 10 years in London, was associated with at least 15 printing houses, working principally as a translator, editor, indexer, and compiler; 57 works associated with his name; worked extensively with Henry Denham's printing house; general editor of Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, 2nd edition; Protestant; on 2 August 1588 he was ordained deacon and priest, and he later became chaplain to Katherine Howard, Lady Howard of Effingham and, from 1597, countess of Nottingham; his devotional writings remained in print well into the 17th century; he died at Bottesford, Leicestershire, on 18 September 1607, aged about 56) Wikipedia, 15 August 2014 (Abraham Fleming (Flemyng) (1552?-1607); an English clergyman, and a prolific writer, translator, contributor to others' texts, editor, and poet; 50 known books that he wrote, translated, or contributed to; the first person to translate a complete Virgilian text (the "Bucoliks" or Eclogues) into English, in 1575; was called upon by other authors to write recommendations for their books and worked alongside notable authors such as George Whetston, Barnabe Googe, and Reginald Scot; many of Elizabethan London's leading printers called on Fleming to edit or embellish pre-production texts; best known for his once disputed but now acknowledged role as chief editor of and major contributor to the second edition of Holinshed's Chronicles (1587); in August 1588 was ordained deacon and priest by Dr Richard Fletcher at Peterborough Cathedral; became chaplain to Charles Howard, Lord High Admiral of England, and not chaplain to Catherine Countess of Nottingham as previously thought; a curate at St Nicholas' Church, Deptford; died at Bottesford, Leicestershire, on 18 September 1607, while on a visit) |
Associated language | eng |