biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1545–1613)
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| biography:
| Scholar and diplomat, born in Exeter, Devon, SW England, UK. He studied languages and divinity at Geneva, where his Protestant family had been forced to take refuge during the persecutions of Mary I, but in 1558 went to Magdalen College, Oxford, and was appointed Greek lecturer at Merton College (1564). In the service of Queen Elizabeth I he was ambassador to Denmark, France, and Holland. In 1587 he married a wealthy widow, then spent huge sums on the extension of the university library, which was renamed the Bodleian and opened in 1602. He was knighted in 1604. |
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