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Cheke, Sir John
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Cheke, Sir John (1514–57). Cambridge‐born protestant Greek scholar and educator, Cheke was fellow of St John's College from 1529. As regius professor 1540–51, he was supported by his friends Sir Thomas
Smith and Roger
Ascham in introducing the new ‘Erasmian’ pronunciation of Greek. Under Henry VIII, Cheke was tutor to Prince Edward who, as Edward VI, gave him land, a knighthood, and the provostship of King's College, Cambridge; he was also member of Parliament, clerk to the council, and secretary of state. A supporter of Lady Jane
Grey, he was imprisoned under Mary 1553–4 but allowed to migrate to Basle, before being enticed to Brussels by Mary's agents in 1556 and again imprisoned in London. Securing release by renouncing his religion, he died soon after.
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All too minor to matter
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 1/20/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...brother, Edward Seymour, and then John Dudley, the Earl of Warwick) for...s to make. It was his tutor, Sir John Cheke, who scotched the plan. When Somerset...is literature. Writing, as Sir John Cheke instructed his royal pupil...
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Edward VI. (reassessment of his life)
Magazine article from: History Review; 3/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...fortunate. One can dismiss the verdicts of Latimer, Sir Anthony Cooke, Roger Ascham, John Foxe (`a Prince, although but tender in years...reign of Bloody Mary. Or one can consider if Sir John Cheke, the young Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/16/1999; 428 words
; Births: Sir John Cheke, classical scholar, 1514; Henrietta...singer and entertainer, 1892. Deaths: John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough...of Tunis, field marshal, 1969; Sir John Charles Walsham Reith, first Baron Reith...
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The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...qualifications to do so. His academics were directed by Sir Geoffrey Elton at Cambridge, who was the most acclaimed...chastise his Highness even physically, and the remarkable Sir John Cheke, instilled a fine humanist education. They drove their...
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The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...discussion of the career of John Florio. Since the appearance...Frances Yates's 1934 study John Florio: The Life of an...younger son, Lodowick, was Sir Philip Sidney's companion...England in the house of Sir John Cheke, where he cast horoscopes...
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Lady Margaret Beaufort and her Professors of Divinity at Cambridge, 1502 to 1649
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Margaret's. Richard Rex expands on John Fisher's theology, a subject which...handled in depth in his The Theology of John Fisher (1991), and on his influence...astonishing addition to the list in 1549 of Sir John Cheke, well-qualified indeed as the...
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A History of the English Bible as Literature.
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...as sacred text and the Bible as English literature were John Wycliff and Tyndale, the latter figuring as father of...without Latinate loan-words and back-formations. Sir John Cheke, Professor of Greek at Cambridge, was among those who...
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Finally historians can give Anne Boleyn her head back
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 3/14/2007; 270 words
; ...an error. Now expert Bendor Grosvenor and historian David Starkey have traced the inscription to her contemporary Sir John Cheke, confirming she is indeed the subject. The discovery comes on the eve of the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea Park...
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Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...it is refreshing to be reminded that the views of John Ponet, John Knox, and Christopher Goodman on monarchy really...College, Cambridge, for example, Alford shows how Sir John Cheke, provost of King's and tutor to the king, became...
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Thursday Celebrity.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 1/2/1997; 700+ words
; ...physical danger in Japan," Cheke wrote. He said the biggest...the physical presence of John, George, Paul and Ringo...than they could take." Cheke won praise for his dispatch...Will he get by with sirs' help? Now that Paul McCartney will soon be Sir Paul, it's time to...McCartney as saying: ...
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Sir John Cheke
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sir John Cheke , 1514-57, English scholar. As professor of Greek at Cambridge he taught Roger Ascham and later was tutor to Edward VI. A...
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Cheke, Sir John
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Cheke, Sir John (1514–57). Cambridge-born protestant Greek scholar, educator, and man of affairs, Cheke was fellow of St John's College from 1529. As regius professor 1540–51...
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Walsingham, Sir Francis
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Walsingham, Sir Francis ( c. 1532–90). Walsingham matriculated at King...prominent humanist (and Cecil's father‐in‐law) Sir John Cheke . He became privy counsellor and principal secretary in 1571 and held...
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Edward VI
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...was a sometime tutor of his penmanship, and Sir John Cheke of Cambridge instructed him in classical subjects...regular preachers. Even the Scottish reformer John Knox delivered a few sermons. John Calvin, the Geneva reformer, wrote to him...
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Cambridge University
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...include the teachers Erasmus of Rotterdam, St. John Fisher, Roger Ascham, Sir John Cheke, Richard Bentley, William Whewell, Lord Acton...James Frazer, G. H. Hardy, Bertrand Russell, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, F. R. Leavis...
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