John Aubrey – Axios Press

John Aubrey

1626 – 1697

English

Biographer. Although he collected and transcribed folk and ghost stories, his posthumously published Brief Lives raised historical gossip to a high art.

Contemporaries

1624–1691	George Fox
1683–1765	Edward Young
1640–1716	William Wycherley
1588–1649	John Winthrop
1609–1683	Benjamin Whichcote
1585–1645	Mary Ward
1593–1683	Izaak Walton
1664–1726	Sir John Vanbrugh
1613–1662	Sir Henry Vane
1637–1674	Thomas Traherne
1584–1656	Myles Standish
1634–1716	Robert South
1651–1716	John Somers
1671–1713	Anthony Shaftesbury
1584–1654	John Selden
1647–1680	John Rochester
1627–1705	John Ray
1592–1644	Francis Quarles
1600–1669	William Prynne
1688–1744	Alexander Pope
1633–1703	Samuel Pepys
1644–1718	William Penn
1649–1705	Titus Oates
1642–1727	Isaac Newton
1614–1687	Henry More
1689–1762	Lady Mary Montagu
1639–1709	William Mompesson
1608–1674	John Milton
1632–1704	John Locke
1614–1657	John Lilburne
1573–1645	William Laud
1645–1701	William Kidd
?–1686	Jack Ketch
1591–1643	Anne Hutchinson
1544–1631	Thomas Hobson
1588–1679	Thomas Hobbes
1583–1648	Edward Herbert
1578–1657	William Harvey
1609–1676	Sir Matthew Hale
1574–1656	Joseph Hall
1636–1680	Joseph Glanvill
1574–1637	Robert Fludd
1592–1637	Nicholas Ferrar
c. 1572–1631	John Donne
1617–1688	Ralph Cudworth
1631–1718	Richard Cumberland
1599–1658	Oliver Cromwell
1675–1729	Samuel Clarke
1680–1740	Ephraim Chambers
1592–1676	William Cavendish
1692–1752	Joseph Butler
1628–1688	John Bunyan
1550–1633	Robert Browne
1605–1682	Sir Thomas Browne
1545–1626	Nicholas Breton
1695–1755	Edward Braddock
1693–1762	James Bradley
1678–1751	Henry Bolingbroke
1615–1691	Richard Baxter
1596–1679	Praise-God Barebone
1555–1626	Lancelot Andrewes
1576–1633	William Ames
1672–1719	Joseph Addison