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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: James Ussher, Bishop of Carlisle, Edmund Law, AEthelwold, Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, Edward Rainbowe, Walter Mauclerk, Francis White, John de Halton, Graham Dow, Silvester de Everdon, Richard Barnes, John May, Samuel Bradford, Charles Lyttelton, Robert de Chauncy, Hugh of Beaulieu, Hugh Percy, Ralph of Irton, Owen Oglethorpe, John Douglas, Richard Sterne, Edward Story, Marmaduke Lumley, Henry Villiers, Thomas Vipont, John Diggle, David Halsey, Nicholas Close, Harvey Goodwin, William Nicolson, Thomas Merke, Robert Reed, William Senhouse, John Bardsley, Bernard, Henry Williams, Cyril Bulley, John Kite, Roger Leyburn, Richard Milbourne, William Barrow, William Strickland, Thomas Bloomer, Richard Bell, Sir George Fleming, 2nd Baronet, Richard Senhouse, Robert Aldrich, Roger Whelpdale, Robert Snoden, John Kirkby, Richard Scroope, Gilbert Welton, John Kingscote, Thomas Appleby, Richard Osbaldeston, William Ayremyn, William Percy, John Horncastle, Barnaby Potter, John Ross, Samuel Waldegrave, John Best, Paulinus of Leeds, John Waugh, Samuel Goodenough, John Penny, Henry Robinson, Thomas Smith. Excerpt: James Ussher (sometimes spelled Usher) (4 January 1581 - 21 March 1656) was Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625-56. He was a prolific scholar, who most famously published a chronology that purported to establish the time and date of the creation as the night preceding Sunday, 23 October 4004 BC, according to the proleptic Julian calendar. Ussher was born in Dublin, Ireland, into a well-to-do Anglo-Irish family. His maternal grandfather, James Stanihurst, had been speaker of the Irish parliament, and his father Arnold Ussher was a clerk in chancery who married Margaret Stanihurst. Ussher's younger, and only surviving, brother, Ambrose, became a distinguished scholar of Arabic an..
