Description:Chapters: William Lilye, Henry Frere, Thomas Burgess, Terry Lake, Manley Angell James. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Lilye (or Lily) (c. 1468 25 February 1522) was an English classical grammarian and scholar. He was an author of the most widely used Latin grammar textbook in England and was the first headmaster of St Paul's School, London. Lilye was born c. 1468 at Odiham, Hampshire and he entered the university of Oxford in 1486. After graduating in arts he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. On his return journey he put in at Rhodes, which was still occupied by the knights of St John, under whose protection many Greeks had taken refuge after the capture of Constantinople by the Turks. He then went on to Italy, where he attended the lectures of Angelus Sabinus, Sulpitius Verulanus and Pomponius Laetus at Rome, and of Egnatius at Venice. After his return he settled in Londonwhere he became friends with Thomas Moreas a private teacher of grammar, and is believed to have been the first who taught Greek in that city. In 1510 Colet, dean of St Paul's, who was then founding the school which afterwards became famous, appointed Lilye the first high master in 1512. Colet's correspondence with Erasmus shows he first offered the position to the Dutchman, who refused it, before considering Lilye. Ward and Waller ranked Lily "with Grocyn and Linacre as one of the most erudite students of Greek that England possessed." Lily's pupils included William Paget, John Leland, Antony Denny, Thomas Wriothesley and Edward North, 1st Baron North. The school became a paragon of classical scholarship. He died of the plague in London on 25 February 1522 and was buried in the north churchyard of St. Paul's Cathedral. Lilye is famous not only as one of the pioneer...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=16372We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Odiham: William Lilye, Henry Frere, Thomas Burgess, Terry Lake, Manley Angell James. To get started finding People from Odiham: William Lilye, Henry Frere, Thomas Burgess, Terry Lake, Manley Angell James, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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24
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Books LLC
Release
2010
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1158652291
People from Odiham: William Lilye, Henry Frere, Thomas Burgess, Terry Lake, Manley Angell James
Description: Chapters: William Lilye, Henry Frere, Thomas Burgess, Terry Lake, Manley Angell James. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Lilye (or Lily) (c. 1468 25 February 1522) was an English classical grammarian and scholar. He was an author of the most widely used Latin grammar textbook in England and was the first headmaster of St Paul's School, London. Lilye was born c. 1468 at Odiham, Hampshire and he entered the university of Oxford in 1486. After graduating in arts he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. On his return journey he put in at Rhodes, which was still occupied by the knights of St John, under whose protection many Greeks had taken refuge after the capture of Constantinople by the Turks. He then went on to Italy, where he attended the lectures of Angelus Sabinus, Sulpitius Verulanus and Pomponius Laetus at Rome, and of Egnatius at Venice. After his return he settled in Londonwhere he became friends with Thomas Moreas a private teacher of grammar, and is believed to have been the first who taught Greek in that city. In 1510 Colet, dean of St Paul's, who was then founding the school which afterwards became famous, appointed Lilye the first high master in 1512. Colet's correspondence with Erasmus shows he first offered the position to the Dutchman, who refused it, before considering Lilye. Ward and Waller ranked Lily "with Grocyn and Linacre as one of the most erudite students of Greek that England possessed." Lily's pupils included William Paget, John Leland, Antony Denny, Thomas Wriothesley and Edward North, 1st Baron North. The school became a paragon of classical scholarship. He died of the plague in London on 25 February 1522 and was buried in the north churchyard of St. Paul's Cathedral. Lilye is famous not only as one of the pioneer...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=16372We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Odiham: William Lilye, Henry Frere, Thomas Burgess, Terry Lake, Manley Angell James. To get started finding People from Odiham: William Lilye, Henry Frere, Thomas Burgess, Terry Lake, Manley Angell James, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.