Francis Holyoake
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Francis Holyoake (1567 – 13 November 1653) was an English cleric and lexicographer.
Holyoake was born at Nether Whitacre, Warwickshire. About 1582 he studied as a commoner at The Queen's College, Oxford, though it does not appear that he took a degree. Later he taught at a school, first at Oxford, and then in Warwickshire. In February 1604 he was instituted to the rectory of Southam, Warwickshire,[1] In 1625 he was elected a member of Convocation.
In 1642 Holyoake was forced from his house by the parliamentarians, his wife was roughly handled, his servant was killed, and his estate of £300 per annum was sequestered, so that he and his family were obliged to subsist on charity.[2] He died on 13 November 1653, aged 86, and was buried in the church of St. Mary at Warwick.
