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Authorised form of nameCarkesse; James (fl 1636 - 1683); poet
Other forms of surnameCarkes
Carkest
Carkis
Carkas
Datesfl 1636 - 1683
NationalityBritish
Place of birthHackney, Middlesex, England, Europe
ActivityEducation:
Westminster School; Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1657; MA 1659)
Career:
Became a Roman Catholic; Instructor in grammar, Magdalen College School (1656-1664); Master of Magdalen College School (1663-1664); clerk in the Ticket Office; headmaster of Chelmsford School (1683)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election23/03/1664
ProposerJohn Wilkins
Date of ejection or withdrawal18 November 1675
RSActivityCommittee and panels:
Committee for Collecting all the Phenomena of Nature hitherto Observed (1664)
Other Royal Society activityProposed on 9 March 1663 and admitted on the same day he was elected; Expelled due to non-payment of subscriptions
RelationshipsParents: James Carkesse and Mary Beresford
OtherInfoAs a clerk to William Brouncker (FRS 1660) in the Navy Office, Carkesse also met Samuel Pepys (FRS 1665), although Carkesse was later found guilty of fraud in the course of his employment there.
Carkesse's work 'Lucida intervalla' (1679) was perhaps one of the first instances of poetry written and published by an inmate of a psychiatric hospital, in this case Finsbury and Bethlem Hospital under the care of Dr Thomas Allen (FRS 1668).
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Foster; Hunter; ODNB
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/37261652
CodeNA7768
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