Andrew Allam

Andrew Allam (1655—17 June 1685) was a miscellaneous writer.

The son of a humble family, he was born at Garsington, near Oxford, and was educated under a noted schoolmaster of the time, William Wildgoose, of Brasenose, at Denton, near his native place. In 1671, he entered at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, of which he subsequently became the principal. In 1680 he took holy orders. His chief works are some additions to "Angliae Notitia" (1684), and to Helorius's "Historical and Chronological Theatre", (published 1687); the Epistle prefixed to Dr. Cosins's "Ecclesiae Anglicanae Politeia", &c, containing an account of the doctor's life; a translation of the life of Iphicrates, Oxf. 1684. He assisted Anthony Wood in his "Athenae Oxon", and had projected a "Notitia Ecclesiae Anglicanae", or "History of Cathedrals", but was prevented by death from completing his design.

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