John Cheke

16th-century English classical scholar and statesman

Sir John Cheke (16 June 151413 September 1557) was an English classical scholar and statesman, notable as the first Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University.

John Cheke

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  • Our own tung should be written cleane and pure, vnmixt and vnmangled with borrowing of other tunges.

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