Robert Chambers | |
Nationality: | English |
Birth Date: | 1571 |
Birth Place: | Yorkshire |
Death Date: | 1628 |
Death Place: | Habsburg Netherlands |
Church: | Catholic |
Years Active: | 1594–1623 |
Education: | English College, Rheims English College, Rome |
Ordained: | 1594 |
Writings: | Palestina (1600) |
Offices Held: | Confessor to the English Benedictine nuns in Brussels |
Family: | --> |
Robert Chambers (1571–1628), was a Catholic priest from Yorkshire.[1]
As a boy Chambers was sent to the English College in Rheims to be educated as a Catholic. In 1593 he was admitted to the English College, Rome, where he was ordained priest in 1594. From 1599 to 1623 he was confessor to the English Benedictine nuns in Brussels. He died in Flanders in 1628.[2] He was also a writer and translator.