John Rider (bishop)

John Rider (1562 - 1632) was a Latin lexicographer and from 1612 until 1632 Anglican Bishop of Killaloe.

Biography

Rider was born in 1562 at Carrington, then in Cheshire, and now in Greater Manchester.

He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford. He was Rector of South Ockendon 1583–90. He was for some time Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He became Rector of Bermondsey in 1612, the same year in which, on 12 January, he was consecrated Anglican Bishop of Killaloe. He held the latter office until his death on 12 November 1632. He is buried at Saint Flannan's church, Killaloe, County Clare.

He was married to Fridswold Crosbie, who died on 26 January 1615.

cholarship

In 1589 Rider published an English and Latin dictionary, the earliest example of such a work in which the English was printed before the Latin. He also wrote an account of the Spanish Armada in Ireland.

Between 1599 and 1614 Rider continued a controversy with Henry Fitzsimon, an Irish Jesuit, on the subject of the relationship between contemporary Protestantism and the Christianity of the early Church. Although Fitzsimon ran the risk of being prosecuted, and potentially sentenced to death, for heresy or treason, he was "merely bundled out of the country", suggesting, it has been said, that, "Dublin would appear to have been a safer place to voice dissent than London, Paris, or Rome" (Brian Jackson, in Ciaran Brady and Jane Ohlmeyer, eds, "British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland" [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005] , p. 103).

Publications

"Bibliotheca scholastica"

*1st edn, Oxford: J. Barnes, Printer to the University of Oxford, 1589
*1st edn (facsimile), Menston: Scolar ("sic") Press, "English linguistics, 1500-1800—a collection of facsimile reprints" 217, 1970
*"Rider's dictionary corrected and augmented, wherein Rider's index is transformed into a dictionary etymological. Here also the barbarous words are ranged into a dictionary by themselves. By F. Holyoke" (London: Adam Islip, 1606)
*3rd edn, "Rider's dictionary corrected and augmented, wherein Rider's index is transformed into a dictionary etymological. Here also the barbarous words are ranged into a dictionary by themselves. By F. Holyoke. Hereunto is annexed a dictionarie etymological by F. Holyoke" (Oxford: J. Barnes, Printer to the University of Oxford, 1612
*"Rider's dictionary corrected and augmented, wherein Rider's index is transformed into a dictionary etymological. Here also the barbarous words are ranged into a dictionary by themselves. By F. Holyoke. Hereunto is annexed a dictionary etymological by F. Holyoke" (London: Adam Islip for T. Adams, 1617)
*"Rider's dictionary as it was heretofore corrected, and with the addition of above five hundred words enriched. Hereunto is annexed a dictionary etymological, deriving every word from his native fountain, with reasons of the derivations; and many Roman antiquities, never an extant in that kind before. By Francis Holyoke. To which are joined (as may appear more largely in the title and epistle before the Latin dictionary) many useful alterations, emendations, and additions of etymologies, differences, antiquities, histories, and their morals by Nicholas Gray" (London: Adam Islip for John Bill and F. Kyngston, 1626)
*Rider's dictionary corrected and augmented, wherein Rider's index is transformed into a dictionary etymological. Here also the barbarous words are ranged into a dictionary by themselves. By F. Holyoke. Hereunto is annexed a dictionary etymologicall by F. Holyoke" (London: Adam Islip and F. Kingston for S. Waterson, 1626)
*"Dictionarium etymologicum Latinum, that is a dictionary declaring the original and derivations of all words used in any Latin authors. Hereunto is also annexed Rider's dictionary..." (Oxford: W. Turner, 1627)
*"Rider's dictionary corrected and augmented, wherein Rider's index is transformed into a dictionary etymological. Here also the barbarous words are ranged into a dictionary by themselves. By F. Holyoke. Hereunto is annexed a dictionary etymological by F. Holyoke" (London: n.p., 1649)
*4th edn, "Dictionarium etymologicum Latinum, that is a dictionary declaring the original and derivations of all words used in any Latin authors. Hereunto is also annexed Rider's dictionary...the fourth time newly corrected" (London: Adam Islip and F. Kyngston, 1633)
*5th edn, "Dictionarium etymologicum Latinum, that is a dictionary declaring the original and derivations of all words used in any Latin authors. Hereunto is also annexed Rider's dictionary...the fifth time newly corrected" (London: F. Kingston for I. Waterson, 1640)
*5th edn, "Dictionarium etymologicum Latinum, that is a dictionary declaring the original and derivations of all words used in any Latin authors. Hereunto is also annexed Rider's dictionary...the fifth time newly corrected" (London: F. Kingston for A. Crooke, 1640)
"Spanish Armada in Ireland"

*"The coppie of a letter sent from m. Rider, deane of Saint Patricks, concerning the newes out of Ireland, and of the Spaniards landing and present estate there" (London: for T. Man, 1601)

ources

* [http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/frost/chap10_killaloe_protestant_bishops.htm James Frost, "The History and Topography of the County of Clare", Part I: Topography of Thomond, Chapter 10: Ui Toirdhealbhaigh, List of the Protestant Bishops of Killaloe]
* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=45496 From: 'Appendix: Corrections to volume 1', The Environs of London: volume 4: Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent (1796), pp. 577-617. Date accessed: 24 April 2007]
* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42825 From: 'Parishes: South Ockendon', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 7 (1978), pp. 117-26. Date accessed: 24 April 2007]
* [http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~heraldry/o_3escallops.html RootsWeb]
*OLIS web OPAC
*Brian Jackson, chapter in Ciaran Brady and Jane Ohlmeyer, eds, "British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
* [http://www.sehepunkte.de/2006/03/pdf/9534.pdf Karl S. Bottigheimer, review of Ciaran Brady and Jane Ohlmeyer, eds, "British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), "sehepunkte" 6:3 (15 March 2006)]