Edward Aglionby
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Edward Aglionby (1520 – ca. 1587) was an English Member of Parliament, official, translator and poet. He was closely associated with the Dudley family.
[edit] Life
He was born at Carlisle the son of Richard Aglionby, educated at Eton, and elected to King's College, Cambridge, 1536, where he distinguished himself, and became a fellow and M.A.[1]
He wrote a genealogy of Queen Elizabeth the First, for which she gave him an annual pension of five pounds. A Latin poem of his was printed in Wilson's Epigrammata, 1552, 4to.[2]
He was elected MP for Carlisle in 1547, Mar 1553 and possibly 1559 and for Warwick in 1571. In 1572 he was appointed Justice of the Peace for Warwickshire.
[edit] References
- "Aglionby, Edward", on the website of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription or UK public library membership required), http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/212. The first edition of this text:
Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. - History of Parliament AGLIONBY, Edward I (1520-91?) of Temple Balsall, Warwicks
[edit] Notes
- ^ Venn, J.; Venn, J. A., eds. (1922–1958). "Aglionby or Egliionby, Edward". Alumni Cantabrigienses (10 vols) (online ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Rose, Hugh James (1857). A New General Biographical Dictionary, London: B. Fellowes et al.
