theologian
Basil Kennett.
English churchman and academic, President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and antiquarian
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About Basil Kennett
Basil Kennett was a Church of England cleric who served as the first chaplain to the British Factory at Leghorn. An academic, writer and translator, Kennett was elected president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, serving for a short time before his early death. His 1696 Romæ Antiquæ Notitia, or the Antiquities of Rome was considered the subject's standard handbook for a century.
Everything about Basil Kennett →- Occupation
- theologian, philologist, classical scholar
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- October 21, 1674
- Died
- January 3, 1715