SPARRE, PER (PETER) LARSSON [SSNE 6194]

Surname

SPARRE

First name

PER (PETER) LARSSON

Title/rank

GENERAL

Nationality

SWEDISH

Education

UNIVERSITY

Text source

General Per (Peter) Larsson Sparre (1628-1692) matriculated at Oxford University in 1674 during his visit to England as Ambassador Extraordinary. He was made 'Doctor of Civil Law'

C. V. Jacobowsky, 'Svenska studenter i Oxford c. 1620-1740' in Personhistorisk Tidskrift, vol. 28, 1927, p.122. William Poole and Kelsey Jackson Williams, 'A Swede in Restoration Oxford: Gothic Patriots, Swedish Books, English Scholars' in Lias: Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources, Vol. 39/1 (2012), p.19.

Service record

SWEDEN, ENGLAND

Arrived 1674-01-01, as AMBASSADOR

Capacity AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY, purpose DIPLOMACY

SWEDEN, OXFORD

Arrived 1674-06-27, as GENERAL

Capacity STUDENT, purpose ACADEMIC