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STUDLEY, JOHN; b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1561 (the first scholar elected from the School under the Statutes of Elizabeth I), adm. scholar 1563, matr. Easter 1563; BA 1566/7; MA 1570; BD (but degree not in Venn); Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1567 – c. 1574; summoned before the heads of the Colleges on a charge of nonconformity 1 Feb 1572/3; ordained deacon 1 Feb 1572/3, priest 25 Oct 1574 (both Winchester); Rector of Ockham, Surrey, from 28 Oct 1573; Vicar of Westerham, Kent, from 7 May 1580; author, The Pageant of the Popes, 1574; his translations of four of Seneca’s tragedies were included in Thomas Newton’s edition of Seneca his tenne tragedies translated into English, 1581; a tradition that he joined the army of Prince Maurice in the Netherlands, and was killed at the siege of Breda in 1590, is incorrect; m. Elizabeth — ; buried Ockham, Surrey 23 October 1606 (will dated 19 Oct 1606, proved Archdeaconry Court of Surrey); DNB.
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Knight, A. "A 1587 deed and a 1606 will correct the biography of John Studley, Tudor poet, translator and cleric." Notes and Queries, Vol. 71, Issue 3 (Sept. 2024), pp. 299–305
Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.