Francis Kynaston 1586/7-1642
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Sir Francis KYNASTON 1586/7-1642
Biographical Note
Of Oteley, Shropshire; MP, poet, translator.
Books
Founded an “academy of learning” in 1635, at his house in London, furnished with books, manuscripts, instruments, etc, for the nobility and gentry.
Sources
- Catalogues of the London booksellers Maggs Bros. 1324 (2002)/1.
- Smuts, R. Malcolm. "Kynaston, Sir Francis (1586/7–1642), writer and founder of an academy of learning." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.