Oliver Almond

English writer

Oliver Almond was a Roman Catholic priest and writer, born in the diocese of Oxford. He is believed by Foley to have been the brother of the martyr, John Almond; but Gillow has shown that this is probably a mistake.

Biography

Oliver was educated at the English Colleges at Rome (1582–87) and Valladolid, and was a missionary in England. He was made George Birkhead 's assistant in Staffordshire in September of 1612 instead of Ralph Stamford. After a year Birkhead substituted him because Almond had been arrested and imprisoned. In July 1613 he was released for a sum of money. ^[1] He presented the English College at Rome with a precious chalice. Some of his correspondence is preserved in the Westminster Archives, and he is conjectured by Gillow to have been the writer of a work entitled The Uncasing of Heresies, or the Anatomie of Protestancie, written and composed by O.A. (Leuven/Louvain?) 1623, 8vo.

References

^ Birkhead, George (1998). Newsletters from the Archpresbyterate of George Birkhead. ISBN 9780521652605.

Henry Foley, Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus, VI., 153
Gillow, Joseph, Bibl. Dict. Eng. Cath., I, 27
Stonyhurst Mss. Collectanea, N. ii, 73.

External links

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Oliver Almond". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.