Andrew Allam

The son of a humble family, he was born at Garsington, near Oxford, and was educated under a noted schoolmaster of the time, William Wildgoose, of Brasenose College, at Denton, near his native place. In 1671, he entered at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, of which he subsequently became the vice-principal. In 1680 he took holy orders.[1]

His chief works are some additions to Edward Chamberlayne's Angliae Notitia (1684), and to Helvicus's Historical and Chronological Theatre, (published 1687); the Epistle prefixed to Richard Cosin's Ecclesiae Anglicanae Politeia, &c, containing an account of the doctor's life; and a translation of the life of Iphicrates, Oxford 1684. He assisted Anthony Wood in his Athenae Oxon, and had projected a Notitia Ecclesiae Anglicanae, or History of Cathedrals, but was prevented by death from completing his plan.[1]

Wikisource has the text of the 1885–1900 Dictionary of National Biography's article about Andrew Allam.

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Allibone, Samuel Austin (1859), "Allam, Andrew", A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors, living and deceased..., 1, Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & company, p. 52