Willis, Edmund ( - )

GEMMS Person ID
GEMMS-PERSON- 1707
(old series: GEMMS-PERSON-1856)
Name
Edmund Willis
Title
Mr
Gender
Male
Lived
b. d. (old)
Source of Data

Hannah Yip

Biographical Sources Consulted

ODNB (Article: 9274); Adele Davidson, Shakespeare in Shorthand: The Textual Mystery of King Lear (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009); Alexander Tremaine Wright, John Willis, S. T. B. and Edmond Willis (n. p.: The Willis-Byrom Club, 1926), Chapter Five

Other note

Edmund Willis was the author of the shorthand manual entitled 'An Abbreviation of Writing by Character' (London, 1618; second edition printed in 1627), in which he states, in a dedicatory epistle addressed to Nicholas Felton, that he had recorded Felton's sermons by shorthand 'by the space of many yeeres' (sig. Ar). He was also a member of the Company of Merchant Taylors.

GEMMS record created
March 29, 2018
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024