See also:LILYE, or See also:LILY, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (c. 1468-1522)
, See also:English See also:scholar, was See also:born at Odiham in See also:Hampshire
.
He entered the university of 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 in 1486, and after graduating in arts went on a See also:pilgrim-See also:age to See also:Jerusalem
.
On his return he put in at See also:Rhodes, which was still occupied by the knights of St See also:John, under whose See also:protection many Greeks had taken See also:refuge after the See also:capture of See also:Constantinople by the See also:Turks
.
He then went on to See also:Italy, where he attended the lectures of Sulpitius Verulanus and See also:Pomponius See also:Laetus at See also:Rome, and of Egnatius at See also:Venice
.
After his return he settled in See also:London (where he became intimate with 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 More) as a private teacher of See also:grammar, and is believed to have been the first who taught See also:Greek in that See also:city
.
In 1510 See also:Colet, See also:dean of St See also:Paul's, who was then See also:founding the school which afterwards became famous, appointed See also:Lilye the first high See also:master
.
He died of the See also:plague on the 25th of See also:February 1522
.
Lilye is famous not only as one of the pioneers of Greek learning, but as one of the See also:joint-authors of a See also:book, See also:familiar to many generations of students during the 19th See also:century, the old See also:Eton Latin grammar
.
The Brevissima Institutio, a See also:sketch by Colet, corrected by See also:Erasmus and worked upon by Lilye, contains two portions, the author of which is indisputably Lilye
.
These are the lines on the genders of nouns, beginning Propria quae maribus, and those on the conjugation of verbs beginning As in praesenti
.
The Carmen de Moribus bears Lilye's. name in the See also:early See also:editions; but See also:Hearne asserts that it was written by See also:Leland, who was one of his scholars, and that Lilye only adapted it
.
Besides the Brevissima Institutio, Lilye wrote a variety of Latin pieces both in See also:prose and See also:verse
.
Some of the latter are printed along with the Latin verses of See also:Sir Thomas More in-Progymnasmata Thomae Mori et Gulielmi Lylii Sodalium (1518)
.
Another See also:volume of Latin verse (Antibossicon ad Gulielmum Hormannum, 1521) is directed against a See also:rival schoolmaster and grammarian, See also:Robert See also:Whittington, who had " under the feigned name of Bossus, much provoked Lilye with scoffs and biting verses."
See the sketch of Lilye's See also:life by his son See also:George, See also:canon of St Paul's, written for See also:Paulus See also:Jovius, who was See also:collecting for his See also:history the lives of the learned men of See also:Great See also:Britain; and the See also:article by J
.
H
.
Lupton, formerly sur-master of St Paul's School, in the See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography
.
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