| AdminHistory | Peter Allix, 1641-1717, was a prominent pastor of the Reformed Church who had been pastor at Charenton, the large Huguenot temple outside Paris, for fourteen years by the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He left France for England at the Revocation; lived in London and established a French Church in Jewin Street, which in its later location at St Martin Orgars survived until 1823. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of divinity by both Oxford and Cambridge universities, and became treasurer and a canon of Salisbury Cathedral. His writings were numerous although an important proposed work on church councils remained unfinished at his death. One of his sons, John Peter, was successively Dean of Gloucester and Ely and the family established itself in East Anglia. |
| CustodialHistory | In the care of the Allix family until December 2004, when it was deposited at the Huguenot Library by Mr. Henry Hurrell, a descendant. |