About Edmund Isham
Lived 1744 – 1817 (aged 72–73). Edmund Isham was a writer.
Edmund Isham D.D. (1744?–1817) was an academic administrator at the University of Oxford.
Isham was elected Warden (head) of All Souls College, Oxford in 1793, a post he held until his death in 1817. While Warden at All Souls College, Isham was also Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1797 until 1798.
A portrait of Isham was painted by William Owen (1769–1825) and a mezzotint engraving was produced by Samuel William Reynolds (1773–1835) in 1810.
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academic administrator
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Edmund Isham was born in 1744.
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Edmund Isham died in 1817.
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Edmund Isham was a writer.
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