John Stow
John Stow (also Stowe; 1524/25–5 April 1605) was an English historian and antiquarian best known for his 1598 Survey of London.
Life
His father, Thomas Stow, was a tallow chandler and John was born circa 1525 in the City parish of St Michael, Cornhill, then at the heart of London's metropolis. His father is recorded as paying rent of 6s 8d per year for the family dwelling, and as a youth Stow would fetch milk every morning from a farm on the land nearby to the east owned by the Minoresses of the Convent of St. Clare.
Stow did not take up his father's tallow chandlery trade, instead becoming an Apprentice then Freeman of the Merchant Taylors' Company in 1547, by which stage he had set up business in premises close to Aldgate Well, close to Leadenhall Street and Fenchurch Street.
Circa 1560 he started upon his major work with which his name is best known and about 10 years later he moved to the parish of St Andrew in the Ward of Lime Street, residing there in comfortable surroundings until his death in 1605.
John Stow (priest)
The Ven. John Waters Stow, MA was Archdeacon of Bermuda from 1951 until 1961.
He was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon; and ordained in 1938. After a curacy in East Wickham he was a Chaplain in the RNVR from 1939 to 1944 when he moved to Portsmouth to serve a second curacy at St Mary, Portsea. He was Rector of St. George, Bermuda from 1947 to 1961; and then of Hatfield until his death on 3 July 1971.
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