Aldhelm

Aldhelm, St, born about 640, was educated at Malmesbury and Canterbury, and became abbot of Malmesbury about 673, Bishop of Sherborne in 705. He died in 709. A skilled architect, he built the little church still standing at Bradford in Wiltshire; a great scholar, he wrote Latin treatises, letters, and verses, besides English poems that have perished. His extant works are published in Dr Giles's Patres Eccles. Angl. (Oxford, 1844).