Ascham, Roger (1514/15–1568), author and royal tutor, was born at Kirby Wiske, near Northallerton in the North Riding of Yorkshire, the third of the four sons of John Ascham (d. 1544), steward to Henry, seventh Lord Scrope of Bolton, and his wife, ...
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Ascham, Roger (1514/15–1568), author and royal tutor
Rosemary O'Day
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Belmaine, Jean (fl. 1546–1559), royal tutor
Gordon Kipling
Belmaine, Jean (fl. 1546–1559), royal tutor, is of uncertain origins. He probably came to England from France in the wake of the French persecutions of religious evangelicals after the edict of Fontainebleau (1540). He certainly had Calvinist sympathies: his corrections to Edward VI's...
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Cheke, Sir John (1514–1557), humanist, royal tutor, and administrator
Alan Bryson
Cheke, Sir John (1514–1557), humanist, royal tutor, and administrator, was born on 16 June 1514 in a house on the corner of Market Hill and Petty Cury in Cambridge, the son of Peter Cheke (d. 1530), administrator, of Cambridge, and his wife, ...
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Cheke, Sir John (1514–1557)
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Sir John Cheke (1514–1557) attrib. Lodovico Leoni, c. 1555 © Copyright The British Museum
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Dalton, John Neale (1839–1931), Church of England clergyman and royal tutor
Richard Davenport-Hines
Dalton, John Neale (1839–1931), Church of England clergyman and royal tutor, was born on the Isle of Thanet, Kent, on 24 September 1839, the eldest of five sons (among nine children) of John Neale Dalton (1808–1880), a Church of England clergyman, and his wife (and first cousin), ...
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Duwes [Dewes], Giles [pseud. Aegidius de Vadis] (d. 1535), musician and royal tutor
Gordon Kipling
Duwes [Dewes], Giles [pseud. Aegidius de Vadis] (d. 1535), musician and royal tutor, was perhaps of Norman origin; the village of Le Vey on the plain of Caen was then called Wez and Latinized as Vadum. One of the many useful foreigners who served ...
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Grindal, William (d. 1548), royal tutor
Stephen Wright
Grindal, William (d. 1548), royal tutor, was educated at Cambridge University, probably at St John's College, where he graduated BA in 1541/2. Nothing is known about his earlier life, but it is possible that he was related to Edmund Grindal, the future archbishop of ...
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Livingstone [née Hay], Helen, countess of Linlithgow (d. 1627), royal tutor
Kate Aughterson
Livingstone [née Hay], Helen, countess of Linlithgow (d. 1627), royal tutor, was the only daughter of Andrew Hay, eighth earl of Erroll, and Jean, his first wife. Helen and her brother's financial and marital interests were represented by the king (to whom they were said to be '...
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Murray, Thomas (1564–1623), royal tutor and college head
R. Malcolm Smuts
Murray, Thomas (1564–1623), royal tutor and college head, was the son of Murray of Woodend. He attached himself to the Scottish court and followed James VI to London in 1603, by which year he had married Jane Drummond (d. 1647). By 26 June 1605, when he was granted a pension of ...
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Quin, Walter (c. 1575–1641), poet and royal tutor
Sidney Lee
revised by J. K. McGinley
Quin, Walter (c. 1575–1641), poet and royal tutor, was born in Dublin. He was apparently studying at Edinburgh University when, in 1595, he was presented to James VI, who was charmed with his manner. He further recommended himself to the king by giving him some poetic anagrams of his own composition on ...
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Spithovius [Spithoff], Johannes (d. 1563), royal tutor and diplomat
David Scott Gehring
Spithovius [Spithoff], Johannes (d. 1563), royal tutor and diplomat, was born in or near Münster, in Westphalia, and maintained the alias Monasteriensis, though he generally identified himself with the Low Countries. He signed his name most frequently in Latin; his Danish name was ...
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Young, Sir Peter (1544–1628)
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Young, Sir Peter (1544–1628), royal tutor and diplomat
Davie Horsburgh
Young, Sir Peter (1544–1628), royal tutor and diplomat, was born on 15 August 1544 at Dundee, the second son of John Young (b. 1497), burgess of Edinburgh and Dundee, and Margaret, daughter of Walter Scrymgeour of Glasswell. John Young's third son, Alexander...
