Elias Ashmole
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Elias Ashmole was an English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer, freemason and student of alchemy. Ashmole supported the royalist side during the English Civil War, serving in the artillery of Lord Astley's Regiment of Foot. He held the military rank of a captain.
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Ashmole's birthplace in Lichfield
Ashmole by William Faithorne, 1656
Frontispiece to Ashmole's translation of Fasciculus Chemicus
Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652), Ashmole's annotated compilation of alchemical poems in English
George Ripley's Wheel, from Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, 1652
Elias Ashmole wearing a tabard as Windsor Herald, painted by Cornelis de Neve in 1664![Elias Ashmole by John Riley, c. 1683[32]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/AshmoleRiley.jpg/1280px-AshmoleRiley.jpg)
Elias Ashmole by John Riley, c. 1683[32]Politicians born in the 1610s 6
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Elias Ashmole was an English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer, freemason and student of alchemy. Ashmole supported the royalist side during the English Civil War, serving in the artillery of Lord Astley's Regiment of Foot. He held the military rank of a captain. At the restoration of Charles II, Ashmole was rewarded with several lucrative offices. In his later years, he collected notes on his life in diary form to serve as source material for a biography. His diary was posthumously published in 1717.
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