Topic: Henry Spelman

32 US students named 2010 Rhodes Scholars for studies at Oxford University in EnglandWhen Henry Spelman found out he'd won a Rhodes Scholarship, his first call was to his girlfriend. Spelman heard the results first.When he called with his good ...

Sir Henry Spelman

Oct. 14, 1641, London), English antiquary, ecclesiastical and legal historian best known for his Concilia, Decreta, Leges, Constitutiones, in Re Ecclesiarum Orbis Britannici (" Three times a member of Parliament, Spelman sat on several royal commissions, including the council for New England (from ...

Monasticon Anglicanum

Aspects of the topic Monasticon Anglicanum are discussed in the following places at Britannica. circle, and, following an introduction to the antiquary Sir Henry Spelman in London, he compiled, with the help of Roger Dodsworth, Monasticon Anglicanum, 3 vol.