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WILLIAM BLAXTON
To commemorate the 300 anniversary of the founding of Boston in 1930, the Boston City Council erected a FOUNDERS MEMORIAL in the Boston Common. This bas-relief memorial depicts the city’s first English resident, William Blaxton welcoming John Winthrop’s party to Shawmut peninsula in 1630. Later, Shawmut was renamed Boston after Boston, Lincolnshire, England, the home Lady Arbella, Simon Bradstreet, Thomas Dudley, Rev. John Cotton and other well known early settlers. In the memorial, Blaxton (on the left) is extending his hand to John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company. As no known portrait of Blaxton exists, Boston’s flamboyant mayor, James Michael Curley, served as the model for Blaxton.
Behind the memorial- across Beacon Street on a building at the corner of Spruce & Beacon, six years earlier, in 1924, the City of Boston placed a tablet memorializing the site of Rev. Blaxton as the first settler of Bo
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Sr. Helen Margaret (Grace A. Ayers, ‘30), SND
Academic Dean (1969-1974)
Grace Anita Ayers was born in Somerville on April 17, 1909, the youngest daughter of John and Margaret (Donovan) Ayers. She attended Emmanuel College and was the president of the Historical Society. Grace Ayers was also part of the utländsk Mission Society, Junior Class Dance Committee, Glee Club, and sekreterare of the Athletic Association. She received her bachelor’s degree in History in 1930. After Emmanuel, she went to Boston College to work on her master’s degree in history that was granted in 1933.
Ms. Ayers taught at Cambridge Latin School before entering the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame dem Namur in 1937, taking the name Sister Helen Margaret. In 1940, After her novitiate, she began teaching his
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Augustine Lindsell
Augustine Lindsell (died 6 November 1634) was an English classical scholar and Bishop of Hereford. In church matters he was advanced by Richard Neile, and was a firm supporter of William Laud. As a scholar he influenced Thomas Farnaby.[1]
Life
[edit]He was born at Bumstead-Steeple, Essex. On 4 April 1592, he was admitted pensioner of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, but was subsequently scholar and fellow of Clare Hall (now Clare College, Cambridge). He graduated Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1595/6, Cambridge Master of Arts (MA Cantab) in 1599, and Doctor of Divinity (DD) in 1621. At Clare, he was tutor to Nicholas Ferrar.[2][3]
In March 1610, he became rector of Wickford, Essex. Neile, Bishop of Durham, appointed him his chaplain. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Regius Professorship of Greek (at Cambridge), when it was vacant after the resignation of Andrew Downes in 1627. He and Patrick Young were the two scholars given s