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SIR THOMAS SMITH (1513-1577)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 270 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:THOMAS See also:SMITH (1513-1577)  , See also:English See also:scholar and diplomatist, was See also:born at See also:Saffron See also:Walden in See also:Essex on the 23rd of See also:December 1513 . He became a See also:fellow of Queens' See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1530, and in 1533 was appointed a public reader or See also:professor . He lectured in the See also:schools on natural See also:philosophy, and on See also:Greek in his own rooms . In 1540 See also:Smith went abroad, and, after studying in See also:France and See also:Italy and taking a degree of See also:law at See also:Padua, returned to Cambridge in 1542 . He now took the See also:lead in the reform of the See also:pronunciation of Greek, his views after considerable controversy being universally adopted . He and his friend See also:Sir See also:John See also:Cheke were the See also:great classical scholars of the See also:time in See also:England . In See also:January 1543/4 he was appointed first regius professor of See also:civil law . He was See also:vice-See also:chancellor of the university the same See also:year, and became chancellor to the See also:bishop of See also:Ely, by whom he was ordained See also:priest in 1546 . In 1547 he became See also:provost of See also:Eton and See also:dean of See also:Carlisle . He See also:early adopted See also:Protestant views, a fact which brought him into prominence when See also:Edward VI. came to the See also:throne . During See also:Somerset's See also:protectorate he entered public See also:life and was made a secretary of See also:state, being sent on an important See also:diplomatic See also:mission to See also:Brussels . In 1548 he was knighted .

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accession of See also:Mary he was deprived of all his offices, but in the succeeding reign was prominently employed in public affairs . He became a member of See also:parliament, and was sent in .1562 as See also:ambassador to France, where he remained till 1566; and in 1572 he again went to France in the same capacityfor a See also:short time . He remained one of See also:Elizabeth's most trusted Protestant counsellors, being appointed .in 1572 chancellor of ,the See also:order of the Garter and a secretary of state . He died on the 12th of See also:August 1577 . In 166, the See also:grandson of bi3 See also:brother See also:George was created a See also:baronet, and from him the See also:title has descended to the Smith See also:family of the See also:present See also:day . His best-known See also:work, entitled De Republica Anglarum: the Maner of See also:Government or Policie of the Realme of England, was published posthumously in 1583, and passed through many See also:editions . His See also:epistle to See also:Gardiner, De recta et emendata linguae Graecae pronunciatione, was printed at See also:Paris in 1568; the same See also:volume includes his See also:dialogue De recta et emendata linguae Anglicanae scriptione . A number of his letters from France are in the See also:foreign state papers . See A . F . See also:Pollard's See also:article in the See also:Diet . Nat .

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Strype was published in 1698 (See also:Oxford edition, 1820) .

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