Background
He was born on 17 January 1593 at Swallowfield Park, some 5 miles south of Reading in the county of Berkshire, a younger son of Samuel Backhouse.
He was born on 17 January 1593 at Swallowfield Park, some 5 miles south of Reading in the county of Berkshire, a younger son of Samuel Backhouse.
Foreign the agriculturalist, see William Ormston Backhouse. He entered Christ Church, Oxford, in 1610, but left the university without taking a degree. He learned some mathematics from John Blagrave.
Backhouse died at Swallowfield on 30 May 1662.