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Cheke was active in public life ; he sat, as member for Bletchingley, for the parliaments of 1547 and 1552-1553 ; he was made provost of King's College, Cambridge ( 1 April 1548 ), was one of the commissioners for visiting that university as well as the University of Oxford and Eton College, and was appointed with seven divines to draw up a body of laws for the governance of the church.
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Meanwhile, Edward was brought up a strict and devout Protestant by numerous tutors, including Bishop Richard Cox, John Belmain, and Sir John Cheke.
Many wealthy Protestants, such as John Foxe and John Cheke, fled England, and Walsingham was among them.
In May 1535, at the age of fourteen, he went up to St John's College, Cambridge, where he was brought into contact with the foremost educators of the time, Roger Ascham and John Cheke, and acquired an unusual knowledge of Greek.
Cheke fell from favour on the accession of Queen Mary, and departed for mainland Europe in 1554: from that point onwards, and continuing after Cheke's death in 1557, the library was dispersed.
To what extent Edward's document — especially this last change — was influenced by Northumberland, his confidant John Gates, or still other members of the Privy Chamber like Edward's tutor John Cheke or Secretary William Petre, is unclear.
Here he fell under the influence of Sir John Cheke, who was admitted a fellow in Ascham's first year, and Sir Thomas Smith.
John Cheke in turn was friendly with Anthony Denny, who was brother-in-law to Kat Ashley, governess to the Lady Elizabeth.
Cheke then procured him a position as secretary to Sir Richard Morrison ( Moryson ), appointed ambassador to Charles V. It was on his way to join Morrison that he paid his celebrated morning call on Lady Jane Grey at Bradgate, where he found her reading Plato's Phaedo, while every one else was out hunting.
Sir John Cheke ( 16 June 1514 – 13 September 1557 ) was an English classical scholar and statesman, notable as the first Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University.
The son of Peter Cheke, esquire-bedell of Cambridge University, he was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1529.
It was strenuously opposed in the University, where the continental method prevailed, and Bishop Gardiner, as chancellor, issued a decree against it ( June 1542 ); but Cheke ultimately triumphed.
Although a scholar of Greek, Cheke was against the over-borrowing of Greek words into English and supported English linguistic purism.
Cheke was visited by two priests and by Dr John Feckenham, dean of St Paul's, whom he had formerly tried to convert to Protestantism, and, terrified by the prospect of being burned at the stake, he agreed to be received into the Church of Rome by Cardinal Pole.
Anthony Cheke suggested to one of the authors, Francois Moutou, that the fossils may have been of the Réunion Solitaire, and this suggestion was published in 1995.
In June 1555, he was staying with Sir John Cheke at Padua, and went on from there to visit Sir John Masone, the English ambassador at Antwerp.
Lord Burghley was succeeded by his son from his first marriage to Mary Cheke, Thomas, the second Baron.
Cheke and life
The precaution proved useless and four months later Cecil committed one of the rare rash acts of his life in marrying Mary Cheke.
Cheke and ;
Years afterwards, he pretended that he had only signed the devise as a witness, but in his apology to Queen Mary I, he did not venture to allege so flimsy an excuse ; he preferred to lay stress on the extent to which he succeeded in shifting the responsibility on to the shoulders of his brother-in-law, Sir John Cheke, and other friends, and on his intrigues to frustrate the Queen to whom he had sworn allegiance.
Thomas Wilson, in the epistle prefixed to his translation of the Olynthiacs of Demosthenes ( 1570 ), has a long and most interesting eulogy of Cheke ; and Thomas Nash, in To the Gentlemen Students, prefixed to Robert Greene's Menaphon ( 1589 ), calls him " the Exchequer of eloquence, Sir John Cheke, a man of men, supernaturally traded in all tongues.
Cawarden used part of the monastery as Revels offices ; other parts he sold or leased to the neighbourhood's wealthy residents, including Lord Cobham and John Cheke.
Cheke wrote: I am of this opinion that our own tung should be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges ; wherein if we take not heed by tiim, ever borowing and never paying, she shall be fain to keep her house as bankrupt.
Cheke and for
Following Leland's death or ( more probably ) his descent into madness, King Edward VI arranged for Leland's library ( including many medieval manuscripts ) to be placed in the custody of Sir John Cheke.
Amongst his pupils at St John's were William Cecil, later Lord Burghley, who married Cheke's sister Mary, and Roger Ascham, who in The Scholemaster gives Cheke the highest praise for scholarship and character.
Cheke and 1547
About 1547 Cheke married Mary, daughter of Richard Hill, sergeant of the wine-cellar to Henry VIII, and by her he had three sons.
Cheke and made
According to Julian Hume and Anthony Cheke, it appears that all depictions of white Dodos were based on a single painting or copies of it, showing a whitish specimen, made by Roelant Savery in ca.
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** Cheke ( to 1551 ), Carr, Dodington ( to 1585 ), Downes ( to 1624 ), Creighton ( to 1639 ), Duport ( to 1654 ), Widdrington, Barrow, Barnes, Fraigneau ( to 1750 ), Francklin ( to 1759 ), Cooke ( to 1792 ), Dobree ( to 1725 )
: III. E. 3. a Bachama, Demsa, Gudo, Malabu, Njei ( Kobochi, Nzangi, Zany ), Zumu ( Jimo ), Holma, Kapsiki, Baza, Hiji, Gude ( Cheke ), Fali of Mubi, Fali of Kiria, Fali of Jilbu, Margi, Chibak, Kilba, Sukur, Vizik, Vemgo, Woga, Tur, Bura, Pabir, Podokwo
Cheke and one
Others there included Cheke, Morison, Cook, Carew, Wroth, James Haddon, John Huntington, John Geoffrey, John Pedder, Michael Renniger, Augustin Bradbridge, Thomas Steward, Humphrey Alcocson, Thomas Lakin, Thomas Crafton, Guido and Thomas Eton, Alexander Nowell, Arthur Saule, William Cole, Christopher Goodman, Richard Hilles, Richard Chambers, and one or both of the Hales brothers.
Cheke and with
* Life of the learned Sir John Cheke, with his Treatise on Superstition ( 1705 )
Writers such as Thomas Elyot flooded their writings with foreign borrowings, whilst writers such as John Cheke sought to keep their writings " pure ".
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Wendy Strahm and Anthony Cheke, two experts in Mascarene ecology, claim that while a rare tree, it has germinated since the demise of the Dodo and numbers a few hundred, not 13.
* Witmer, M. C. & Cheke, A. S. ( 1991 ): The dodo and the tambalacoque tree: an obligate mutualism reconsidered.
* 1514 – John Cheke, English scholar ( d. 1557 )
* September 13 – John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman ( b. 1514 )
* June 16 – John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman ( d. 1557 )
The original notebooks passed from Henry Cheke to Humphrey Purefoy, and so ( following his death in 1598 ) to Humphrey's son Thomas, who divided many of them between his two cousins John Hales and the antiquary, William Burton.
On learning about the custom of presenting a memorandum to the king every new year, he worked on a major treatise which he gave as a draft to his friend John Cheke on 21 October 1550.
* September 13-John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman ( b. 1514 )
He and his friend, Sir John Cheke, were the great classical scholars of the time in England.
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At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.
Greece was one of the highlights of our trip, but beginning in Greece and continuing around the world throughout Southeast Asia the treatment of animals was horrifying, ranging from callous indifference to active cruelty.
The Suez-Hungary crisis proves that this system was not invented by the new Administration, but only made more consistent and more active.
The first was a list of fourteen manufacturing companies located in the state of Washington which were personally known to the research team to be active in defense work.
Substance Z, an active urinary peptide, was purified by extraction in organic solvents and repeated column chromatography ; ;
He was also personally active in ward politics, and by 1924 O'Banion had acquired sufficient political might to be able to state: `` I always deliver my borough as per requirements ''.
the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.
By the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon, which, one would think, would be late enough so that by then, except for small children and a few hardy souls who had not yet sobered up, it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.
that she was active in the Woman's Club and he in Lions, Rotary, and Jaycee ; ;
Theodore Dwight Weld ( 1803-1895 ) was especially active.
Susan was an active character ; ;
But the process of refusing to think about it was an active reminder in itself and he couldn't rid himself of a consciousness of it throughout the day.
Attempts to accuse anthropologists of complicity with the CIA and government intelligence activities during the Vietnam War years have turned up surprisingly little ( although anthropologist Hugo Nutini was active in the stillborn Project Camelot ).
These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets, and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids.
While Poirot's actual death and funeral occurred in " Curtain ", years after his retirement from active investigation, it was not the first time Hastings attended the funeral of his best friend.
His father's civil service commission was still active, and during Turing's childhood years his parents travelled between Hastings in England and India, leaving their two sons to stay with a retired Army couple.
The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.
Bloch was shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France in World War II for his active membership of the French Resistance, and Febvre carried on the Annales approach in the 1940s and 1950s.
Jonas of Bobbio records that Columbanus was active in Bregenz, where he disrupted a beer sacrifice to Wodan.
In imperial politics Albert was fairly active.
Alessandro Algardi ( 31 July 1598 – 10 June 1654 ) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome, where for the latter decades of his life, he was the major rival of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Amos, an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah, was active c. 750 BC during the reign of Jeroboam II, making the Book of Amos the first biblical prophetic book written.
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