biography
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Lilye or Lily, William
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1468–1522)
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| biography:
| Grammarian, born in Odiham, Hampshire, S England, UK. After graduating in the arts at Oxford, he visited Jerusalem, Rhodes, and Italy, and learned Greek from refugees from Constantinople. He was appointed first high-master of St Paul's School (1512–22), and was perhaps the first person to teach Greek in London. He contributed a Latin syntax, with the rules in English, under the title ‘Grammatices Rudimenta’, to Colet's Aeditio (1527). He wrote Lily's Grammar, which after much revision was published as Eton Latin Grammar (1758). |
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