The English political theorist Sir Robert Filmer (died 1653) was influential in the development of English conservative thought. His treatises formed the basis for a royalist or Tory theory of kingship and government. The eldest son of Sir Edward...

While the life and writings of Sir Robert Filmer may be less familiar to students of seventeenth-century prose than those of his literary and political opponents, his literary career as a defender of absolute monarchy is significant for what it reveals...

Filmer, Robert(C. 1588–1653) Robert Filmer, the English political writer and theorist of the divine right of kings, was an early expositor of the patriarchal account of the state and of society. He was a country gentleman of the county of Kent...

Sir Robert Filmer (1588 – 26 May 1653) was an English political theorist. He was the son of Sir Edward Filmer of East Sutton in Kent. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1604. Knighted by Charles I at the beginning of...

The thirty-seven music manuscripts comprising the Filmer Collection at Yale University, nearly all of English provenance, suggest that a lively musical culture existed in the homes of the Filmers of Kent, England, in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In a 1978 study...

Marjorie E. Filmer January 29, 2004 Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Lane Funeral Home Canfield Chapel for Marjorie Filmer, age 94 who died Sunday morning. Mrs. Filmer was a member of Struthers Baptist Tabernacle Church for...