Henry Alvey

Henry Alvey was a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge when appointed Provost on 8 October 1601.¹ He went back to England in March 1602 and did not return again until October 1603. An outbreak of plague in June 1604 caused a temporary closure of the College, and again he retired to England until June 1605. Alvey was a conscientious Puritan who kept meticulous accounts. Though Provost for eight years, he resided for not much over five, and left little or no mark on Trinity.

1. J.V. Luce, Trinity College Dublin, The First 400 Years (Dublin, 1992), p. 13.