Edmund Chishull

Born at Eyworth, Bedfordshire, in 1671, Edmund Chishull was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he took his B.A. in 1690, M.A. in 1693, and B.D. in 1705. He later became a fellow of the college and developed a reputation as a learned churchman with wide scholarly interests.

In the late 1690s he traveled abroad and served as chaplain to the Turkey Company at Smyrna. That experience gave him material for the journal later published as Travels in Turkey and Back to England, a work valued for its observations on places, monuments, and local life. He also wrote on antiquities, coins, and theology, including the collaborative Antiquitates Asiaticae.

From 1708 he was vicar of Walthamstow in Essex, where he spent the rest of his life. Chishull died there on May 18, 1733. No suitable verified portrait image could be confirmed from the sources checked, so a profile image is not included here.