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Sedley Lynch Ware
b. 1868
A historian and teacher with an international education, he is best known for The Elizabethan Parish in Its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects, a detailed study of parish life in early modern England. He later spent decades teaching history at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.
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The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects
by Sedley Lynch Ware
About the author
Born in Jackson, Mississippi, on November 15, 1868, Sedley Lynch Ware built an unusually wide-ranging academic career. Records associated with his life and work indicate that he studied in Paris, earned a B.A. from Oxford, later took an LL.B. from Columbia, and completed a Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins.
Ware is chiefly remembered as the author of The Elizabethan Parish in Its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects (1908), a scholarly study of how parish administration, church life, and local finance worked in Elizabethan England. The book reflects the kind of careful archival research that made it useful to readers interested in English religious and social history.
He also taught history for many years at the University of the South, where he served from 1913 until his retirement in 1944. He died in 1951, leaving behind the reputation of a serious scholar and longtime educator.