Identity area
Reference code
CCPP/FER
Title
Papers of Nicholas Ferrar
Date(s)
- c.1620-1631 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
2 boxes, paper
Context area
Name of creator
Ferrar, Nicholas (1593-1637), religious writer, administrator and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
(1593-1637)
Biographical history
Admitted to Clare College and was a Fellow (1613-1631).
1618-1624 director to the affairs of the Virginia Company.
1626 ordained as a deacon and founded the small Anglican community of Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire, shortly after his mother Mary Ferrar purchased the land there in 1624.
Archival history
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Allied materials area
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Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Personal papers of Nicholas Ferrar are held in the archives at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
https://magdalene.maxarchiveservices.co.uk/index.php/ferrar-papers