William Ames matriculated pensioner in 1593/4 ; BA 1597/8; MA 1601. Elected fellow 1601. He was a Calvanistic puritan, a pupil of William Perkins. He was some what obdurate and thus rejected by the church for preferments. He became Professor of Theology at Franeker in 1622 and in 1626 became the Rector of that university. After 10 years he retired to Rotterdam for health reasons and died in Nov 1633 having caught a cold in escaping from his house during a flood. He was the first of the reformers to treat ethics scientifically, making the principals of Christianity more certain and clear in relation to particular cases.
