| AdminHistory | Born, c1604; son of Dr John Donne (1573-1631), Dean of St Paul's and poet; educated at Westminster School; elected a student at Christ Church Oxford, 1622; apparently took the degrees of BA and MA, but was notorious for his dissipated habits; took the degree of doctor of laws at the University of Padua; returned to England; incorporated at Oxford with the same degree, 1638; admitted to holy orders; presented to the rectory of High Roding, Essex, 1638; presented to the rectory of Ufford, Northamptonshire, 1639; presented to the rectory of Fulbeck, Lincolnshire, 1639; resided at none of them; chaplain to Basil, earl of Denbigh; an object of suspicion to the parliamentary party during the Civil War; apparently resided for the last twenty years of his life at his house in Covent Garden, where he died, 1662; buried at the west end of St Paul's Church, Covent Garden.Publication: 'Donne's Satyr; containing a Short Map of Mundane Vanity, a Cabinet of Merry Conceits, certain pleasant propositions and questions, with their merry solutions and answers' (printed by R W for M Wright, London, 1662). |
| CustodialHistory | Part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century. Formerly Ogden A 23. |