James Ware (historian)

Sir James Ware
Born	26 November 1594 Dublin
Died	1 December 1666
Education	Trinity College Dublin
Known for	historian

Sir James Ware (26 November 1594 – 1 December 1666) was an Anglo-Irish historian.

Born at Castle Street, Dublin, Ware was the eldest son of James Ware, who arrived in Ireland in 1588 as a secretary to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, FitzWilliam. His father was knighted by King James I, was elected M.P. for Mallow in 1613, and served as auditor-general for Ireland till his death in 1632, in which capacity he was succeeded by his son. James graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1616, having received a good education in Latin and Greek. Becoming interested in Irish history, he began assembling a very fine collection of Irish manuscripts, and made transcriptions from works held in other collections, including that of his close friend James Ussher, Bishop of Meath.

Knighted in 1629, Sir James was elected Member of the Irish House of Commons (M.P.) for the University of Dublin in 1634. In 1638 he, with Sir Philip Perceval obtained the monopoly of granting licenses for the sale of ale and brandy.

Ware's first book, published in 1626, was Archiepisco Porum Cassiliensium & Tuamensium Vitae, followed by Caenobia Cistertientia Hiberniae and De Praesulibus Lageniae, both in 1631. In 1633 he published three edited works: Edmund Spenser's 'View of the State of Ireland'; Meredith Hanmer's 'History of Ireland'; and Edmund Campion's 'History of Ireland'. His book of 1639, De Scriptoribus Hiberniae was to be the last published for fifteen years, due to his involvement in Irish and British politics.

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