Cheke

Robin Cheke is the eldest son of Sir Thomas Cheke.

Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888

I'm sure Robin Cheke told my brother of it since I was last in town.

Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888

Siding with Wilson as the controversy gained momentum, a Cambridge University classicist, Sir John Cheke, was equally repulsed by the recent developments: “I am of this opinion that our own tung should be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges.”

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Along with shipments of tobacco grown in America, English-speakers would soon be in receipt of Native American words such as the Algonquian powwow and moccasin.viii But given that Renaissance is yet another borrowed term, French for “rebirth,” perhaps Cheke would have preferred that we refer to his day, more “natively,” as the Birthagaindom?

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Siding with Wilson as the controversy gained momentum, a Cambridge University classicist, Sir John Cheke, was equally repulsed by the recent developments: “I am of this opinion that our own tung should be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges.”

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Along with shipments of tobacco grown in America, English-speakers would soon be in receipt of Native American words such as the Algonquian powwow and moccasin.viii But given that Renaissance is yet another borrowed term, French for “rebirth,” perhaps Cheke would have preferred that we refer to his day, more “natively,” as the Birthagaindom?

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Cheke solicited his mentor, Roger Ascham, for a suggestion.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

She was godmother to John Cheke's child (Cheke was Edward VI's tutor) and sent an obligatory present. 157

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

Once Denny had secured Cheke's appointment, he then asked Cheke (probably at the request of his sister-in-law, Katherine Champernon) to recommend a tutor for Elizabeth.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

One mark of this was that it was no longer possible for Elizabeth and Edward to share lessons, even assuming that they had done so previously. 114 John Cheke, a famous scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge now supervised the Prince's lessons.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008