CHILMEAD, Edmund
(1611–1654)> SCHOLAR · MUSICIAN
CHILMEAD (Edmund). English scholar and musician, Stow-in-the-Wold, Gloucester, 1611. Clerk of Magdalen Coll., Oxford. Canon of Christ Church, 1632. Resided with Este the musician, in London, 1648. London, 1654. Wrote De Musicâ Antiquâ Græcâ, printed at the end of the Oxford edition of Aratus, 1672. He gave concerts in London and drew up a catalogue of the Greek MSS. in the Bodleian library. He was well versed in the old music, and was the best qualified at that time . . . to enter upon this…