Thursday, 10 May 2018

Robert Hovenden bust by John Cheere Codrington Library.



The Codrington Library Plaster Busts by John Cheere

All Souls College, Oxford University.

Part 24. 

Robert Hovenden D.D. (1544 - 1614).

Fellow of All Souls 1565.

Warden of All Souls 1571 - 1614.



For a useful potted biography see - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hovenden

For an in depth look at All Souls and Hovenden see 





















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The Monument to Robert Hovenden.

The probable source for the Cheere Bust.






The Monument to Robert Hovenden.

in the Chapel at All Souls College, Oxford.

Anonymous Sculptor.














All photographs of the monument by the author.

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