Richard Pernham 1583?-1628
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Richard PERNHAM 1583?-1628
Biographical Note
Born in Leicestershire. BA Corpus Christi College, Cambridge probably 1603, MA 1606, fellow 1607, BD 1614. Vicar of Corringham, Lincolnshire 1610, of Stowmarket, Suffolk 1625, Pastor Anglicus at Elbing, near Gdansk 1618-24.
Books
Either Pernham, or his widow Mary, whose name appears in many of them, donated ca.40 manuscripts from the Brigettine convent at Elbing to Corpus Christi, where they remain today.
Sources
- Parker Library On the Web.
- Dickins, B. The making of the Parker Library, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 6 (1972), 19-34, p.30.
- Munby, A. N. L. Cambridge college libraries, Cambridge, 1960.
- Venn, J. and J. A. Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1924.