Wallington, Nehemiah (1598-05-12 - 1658-08-01)

Nehemiah Wallington was born on 12 May 1598 in the parish of St Leonard Eastcheap, London, the son of John Wallington, citizen and turner (1552/3-1638) and Elizabeth (1562/3-1603), the daughter of Anthony Hall, citizen and skinner. Nehemiah Wallington was admitted to the Turners' Company on 18 May 1620. Shortly after, he married Grace Rampaigne, the sister of Livewell Rampaigne, minister of Burton. Wallington died in Eastcheap in August 1658. Wallington is best remembered today for his notebooks. In addition, there are several copies of extant books owned by Wallington held at the British Library; for example, Stephen Denison, The Monument or Tombe-Stone (London, 1620), 1418.i.19; Richard Stock, The Churches Lamentation for the losse of the Godly (London, 1614), 1418.i.11. See Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1985); David Booy, ed., The Notebooks of Nehemiah Wallington, 1618-1654: A Selection (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007).