biography
pronunciation:
[asham]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1515–68)
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| biography:
| Humanist, born in Kirby Wiske, North Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, where he became reader in Greek (c.1538). In defence of archery he published Toxophilus (1545), which ranks among English classics on account of its style. He was tutor to the Princess Elizabeth (1548–50), and later became Latin secretary to Queen Mary I. His principal work was The Scholemaster, a treatise on Classical education, published in 1570. |
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