Allen Apsley (Dealer)

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Queen's House in the Tower of London, where Apsley has lived since 1616

Sir Allen Apsley (* 1567 in London ; † 1630 ibid) was an English merchant, co-founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony , squire in Feltwell and lord-lieutenant of the Tower .

Apsley was born the son of the merchant John Apsley in the City of London . In 1605 he was made a Knight Bachelor and appointed Lord Lieutent of the Tower of London and the Tower Division by Charles I in 1616 . He had two children with his wife, Lucy: Allen Apsley Junior and Lucy Hutchinson .

Apsley worked to ensure that his daughter, which was unusual for the time, got a good education and thus could later make a career as a writer. Lucy Hutchinson later described her father as the father of all the prisoners in the Tower , to whom he showed extraordinary "compassion and warmth". He also showed enthusiasm for any kind of education. Apsley's wife, Lucy, paid for the experiments Walter Raleigh carried out in his fortress custody in the Tower.

When Apsley died, he left enormous debts to his descendants. His own accounts were woven into those of the English government and those of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, so creditors would haunt the family for years.

Apsley is buried in the Church of St. Peter ad Vincula on the grounds of the Tower.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Westminster Abbey: Apsley Family
  2. ↑ Lyndy Abraham: Milton's Paradise Lost and "the sounding alchymie" in Renaissance Studies, 12: 261-276. doi : 10.1111 / j.1477-4658.1998.tb00403.x .
  3. ^ University of Oxford, Center for Early Modern Studies: Chronology Lucy Hutchinson

literature

  • JH Round: Apsley, Sir Allen (1566 / 7-1630). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
personal data
SURNAME Apsley, Allen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English trader, co-founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Laird of Feltwell and Lord-Lieutenant of the Tower
DATE OF BIRTH 1567
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 1630
Place of death London