Elias Ashmole

Elias Ashmole (1617-1692) English antiquary, alchemist and herald, born at Lichfield in 1617, was the founder of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. He studied law and astrology.

Publications

• Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652)
• The Institution, Laws and Ceremonies of the Order of the Garter (1672)

His memoirs were published in 1717.