Ashley, Robert

Robert Ashley
natal chart (Placidus)
natal chart English style (Equal houses)
natal chart with Whole Sign houses

Name	Ashley, Robert Gender: M
born on	2 July 1565 Jul.Cal. (12 July 1565 greg.) at 21:00 (= 9:00 PM )
Place	Damerham, England, 50n57, 1w52
Timezone	LMT m1w52 (is local mean time)
Data source	From memory Rodden Rating A Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	19°57' 22°45 Asc. 09°30'

add Robert Ashley to 'my astro'

Biography

English linguist, translator, book collector and miscellaneous writer of the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I, and Member of Parliament for Dorchester. He died in October 1641 without descendants, leaving his personal library collection of over 4000 volumes toward the re-establishment of a library at Middle Temple.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Events

• Death, Cause unspecified October 1641 (Age 76)
  chart Placidus Equal_H.

Source Notes

Sy Scholfield quotes from "Robert Ashley: Elizabethan Man of Letters," by Virgil B. Heltzel in "The Huntington Library Quarterly," 10.1 (1 January 1946), p. 349: "According to his own report, Robert Ashley was born on Saturday, July 2, 1565, at nine o'clock in the evening, at Damerham, some seven miles from Salisbury and Wilton."

NB: This date Old Style was actually a Monday (but 2 June was a Saturday).

Categories

• Lifestyle : Social Life : Collector (Library collection of over 4000 volumes)

• Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Linguist

• Vocation : Politics : Public office (Member of Parliament for Dorchester)

• Vocation : Writers : Translator