Francis Howell

Francis Howell (1625–1679) was Principal of Jesus College, Oxford from 1657 to 1660.

For the American anthropologist, see Francis Clark Howell.

Life

Howell was born in Gwinear in Cornwall. He was White's Professor of Moral Philosophy between 1654 and 1657. He was a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford and was appointed to the position of Principal of Jesus College by Oliver Cromwell, in preference to Seth Ward, who was the choice of the fellows of the college.[1] The college has had strong links to Wales since its foundation. In contrast, Howell was originally from Cornwall and was the first Principal not to be either Welsh or of Welsh descent (and the last until 1921).[2] Howell remained in post until The Restoration, when Francis Mansell became Principal for the third and final time.[3]

gollark: SPUDNET uses purely string channels and has per-channel keybased authentication.
gollark: As a mostly internal service for PotatOS and such it is also not open sourced.
gollark: I'm osmarks, the web UI is mine, and the new URL is skynet.osmarks.net. I don't think it allows tables as channels now. SPUDNET is more complex and somewhat poorly documented.
gollark: There are other projects in this space like soqet with authentication, but the design called for making it as trustless and simple as possible so skynet requires you to do encryption and stuff yourself (SPUDNET, another project of mine, does *not* do this and does have a fairly complex authorization system, but is used in different areas).
gollark: Someone here made something which meddles with the peripheral API to make it emulate actual modem peripherals, but by default the API is quite different.

References
  1. Henry, John (May 2006). "Ward, Seth (1617–1689)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 14 August 2007. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  2. "The Welsh College". Jesus College, Oxford. 12 November 2000. Archived from the original on 15 July 2008. Retrieved 15 August 2007.
  3. Baker, J. N. L. Jesus College 1571–1971. Oxford: Oxonian Press Ltd. p. 15. ISBN 0-9502164-0-2.


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