Robert Pember

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Robert Pember (died 1560) was an English classical scholar. He was a reader in Greek at Trinity College, Cambridge and taught Roger Ascham Greek. [1]

Robert Pember was of a Herefordshire family. He studied at Cambridge University, graduating B.A. in 1523/4 and M.A. in 1527. [2] He became a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge in 1524. In 1546 he became one of the original fellows of Trinity College, and was a reader in Greek there until his death in 1560. He retained his post at Trinity in 1555 by subscribing to the Roman Catholic articles. [2]

He died in 1560 at Trinity College. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Dictionary of National Biography Robert Pember
  2. 1 2 "Pember, Robert (PMR523R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ↑ Gray, George John (1858). Athenae Cantabrigienses. Deighton, Bell, & Company; [etc., etc. ]. p.  208. Robert Pember trinity.


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