See also:SIR See also:JOHN See also:CHEKE (1514-1557)
, See also:English classical See also:scholar, was the son of See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter See also:Cheke, See also:esquire-See also:bedell of See also:Cambridge University
.
He was educated at St See also:John's See also:College, Cambridge, where he became a See also:fellow in 1529
.
While there he adopted the principles of the See also:Reformation
.
His learning gained him an See also:exhibition from the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, and in 1540, on See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VIII.'s See also:foundation of the regius professorships, he was elected to the See also:chair of See also:Greek
.
Amongst his pupils at St John's were See also:Lord See also:Burghley, who married Cheke's See also:sister See also:Mary, and See also:Roger See also:Ascham, who in The School-See also:master gives Cheke the highest praise for scholarship and See also:character
.
Together with See also:Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith, he introduced a new method of Greek See also:pronunciation very similar to that commonly used in See also:England in the 19th See also:century
.
It was strenuously opposed in the University, where the See also:continental method prevailed, and See also:Bishop See also:Gardiner, as See also:chancellor, issued a See also:decree against it (See also:June 1542); but Cheke ultimately triumphed
.
On the loth of See also:July 1554, he was chosen as See also:tutor to See also:Prince See also:Edward, and after his See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil's See also:accession to the See also:throne he continued his instructions
.
Cheke took a fairly active See also:share in public See also:life; he sat, as member for Bletchingley, for the parliaments of 1547 and 1552-1553; he was made See also:provost of King's College, Cambridge(See also:April 1, 1548), was one of the commissioners for visiting that university as well as See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford and See also:Eton, and was appointed with seven divines to draw up a See also:body of See also:laws for the governance of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church
.
On the See also:lath of See also:October 1551 he was knighted; in 1553 he was made one of the secretaries of See also:state, and sworn of the privy See also:council
.
His zeal for Protestantism induced him to follow the See also:duke of See also:Northumberland, and he filled the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of secretary of state for See also:Lady Jane See also:Grey during her nine days' reign
.
In consequence Mary threw him into the See also:Tower (July 27, 1553), and confiscated his See also:wealth
.
He was, however, released on the 13th of See also:September 1554, and granted permission to travel abroad
.
He went first to See also:Basel, then visited See also:Italy, giving lectures in Greek at See also:Padua, and finally settled at See also:Strassburg, teaching Greek for his living
.
In the See also:spring of 1556 he visited See also:Brussels to see his wife; on his way back, between Brussels and See also:Antwerp, he and Sir Peter See also:Carew were treacherously seized (May 15) by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip of See also:Spain, hurried over to England, and imprisoned in the Tower
.
Cheke was visited by two priests and by Dr John See also:Feckenham, See also:dean of St See also:Paul's, whom he had formerly tried to convert to Protestantism, and, terrified by a See also:threat of the stake, he gave way and was received into the Church of See also:Rome by See also:Cardinal See also:Pole, being cruelly forced to make two public recantations
.
Overcome with shame, he did not See also:long survive, but died in See also:London on the 13th of September 1557, carrying, as T
.
See also:Fuller says (Church See also:History), " See also:God's See also:pardon and all See also:good men's pity along with him." About 1547 Cheke married Mary, daughter of See also:Richard See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, sergeant of the See also:wine-cellar to Henry VIII., and by her he had three sons
.
The descendants of one of these, Henry, known only for his See also:translation of an See also:Italian morality See also:play Freewyl (Tragedio del Libero Arbitrio) by Nigri de See also:Bassano, settled at Pyrgo in See also:Essex
.
Thomas See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson, in the See also:epistle prefixed to his translation of the Olynthiacs of See also:Demosthenes (157o), has a long and most interesting eulogy of Cheke; and Thomas See also:Nash, in To the Gentlemen Students, prefixed to See also:Robert See also:Greene's Menaphon (1589), calls him " the See also:Exchequer of eloquence, Sir Ihon Cheke, a See also:man of men, super-naturally traded in all See also:tongues." Many of Cheke's See also:works are still in MS., some have been altogether lost
.
One of the most interesting from a See also:historical point of view is the Hurt of See also:Sedition how greueous it is to a Communewelth (1549), written on the occasion of See also:Ket's See also:rebellion, republished in 1569, 1576 and 1641, on the last occasion with a life of the author by See also:Gerard Langbaine
.
Others are D
.
Joannis Chrysostomi homiliae duae (1543), D
.
Joannis Chrysostomi de providentia Dei (1545), The See also:Gospel according to St See also:Matthew
.
. . translated (c
.
1550; ed
.
See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Goodwin, 1843), De obitu See also:Martini Buceri (1551), (See also:Leo VI.'s) de Apparalu bellico (Basel, 1554; but dedicated to Henry VIII., 1544), Carmen Heroicum, See also:aut epitaphium in Antonium Deneium (155,), De pronuntiatione Graecae
.
. . linguae (Basel, 1555)
.
He also translated several Greek works, and lectured admirably upon Demosthenes
.
His Life was written by John See also:Strype (1821); additions by J
.
See also:Gough See also:Nichols in Archaeologia (186o), xxxviii
.
98, 127
.
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