Nathaniel Brent
Sir Nathaniel Brent (c. 1573–1652) was educated at Merton College, Oxford (1589; matriculated 1590; BA 1593; fellow 1594; MA 1598; sub-warden 1605–1613). He was elected warden in 1622, in succession to Sir Henry Saville (editor of the 1613 Chrysostom recorded below).[1]
He had married the niece of Archbishop George Abbot, and was appointed commissary of the diocese of Canterbury and vicar-general to the archbishop (1628). He was knighted in 1629. Brent was appointed as commissary general for the city and diocese of Canterbury during the vacancy following the death of Archbishop Abbot in 1633 (CCA-DCc-ChAnt/S/405), but by 1640 had fallen out with Archbishop Laud and sided with the parliamentarians.
The Cathedral Benefactors' Book records the following gift from Brent (f. 102v):
Nathaniel Brent Eques Auratus, legum Dr et Archiep: Cant: Vicarius Generalis et delegatus dedit Diui Chrisostomi Opera Domini Henrici Sauilij Impensis Etonæ edita 8 vol: fol:
The book is listed in the 1634 and 1638 inventories.
- Shelfmark W/M-5-18/25
- Saint John Chrysostom. S. Ioannis Chrysostomi opera graecè, octo voluminibus, ...
Etonae: In Collegio Regali excudebat Ioannes Norton, 1613. 8v.; folio.- Wants first tp to vol. 1. – First gathering in MS. facsimile.
References
- ↑ A. J. Hegarty, ‘Brent, Sir Nathanael (1573/4–1652)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011, accessed 29 Jan 2013