Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Fowler, Abraham

1044187Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 20 — Fowler, Abraham1889Sidney Lee

FOWLER, ABRAHAM (fl. 1577), poet, was a queen's scholar at Westminster, whence he was elected to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1568. His name does not appear on the university register. He contributed a poem in alternate rhymes to ‘A Philosophicall discussion entituled The Anatomie of the Minde newlie made and set forth by T[homas] R[ogers],’ London, 1576. Rogers [q. v.] was a student of Christ Church. Fowler's verse is followed by a poem by Camden.

[Welch's Alumni Westmonast. p. 47; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), ii. 163; Brydges's Censura Literaria, vi. 33.]

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