Ezechiel Foxcroft

Ezechiel Foxcroft (1633, London – 1676) was an English esoterocist who produced the first translation of the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz published in 1690.

Life

He was the son of the prominent merchant George Foxcroft,[1] and his wife, Elizabeth Whichcote,[2][3]: 197  sister of Benjamin Whichcote and Jeremy Whichcote.[4] After attending school at Eton he then continued to King's College, Cambridge. He gained his BA in 1652 when he became a Fellow of the College, gaining his MA in 1656. He was appointed lecturer in mathematics. He became senior proctor of Cambridge University in 1673, but retired from his academic positions in 1674.[5]

References
  1. Allen, Paul Marshall (1981). A Christian Rosenkreutz Anthology. SteinerBooks. ISBN 9781621511373. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  2. "Foxcroft [née Whichcote], Elizabeth (1600–1679), theosophist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/53695. Retrieved 20 January 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. Crocker, R. (2003). Henry More, 1614-1687: A Biography of the Cambridge Platonist. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781402015021. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  4. "Elizabeth Whichcote b. 1604 2nd dau". geni_family_tree. Geni.com. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  5. McIntosh, Christopher (1998). The Rosicrucians: The History, Mythology, and Rituals of an Esoteric Order. Weiser Books. ISBN 9780877289203. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
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