John Chamber

March, 1546 (age 58)

He taught grammar, Greek, and medicine. His name is sometimes given in a Latin form as Johannes Chamberus. He proceeded to Master of Arts in October 1573, having already taken holy orders. In 1574 he was appointed a lecturer on grammar and gave an oration on Ptolemy"s Almagest. In 1576 he was appointed a lecturer on Greek and was also chosen as junior Linacre lecturer in medicine, a Merton College appointment which was repeated in 1579. In 1582 his life changed direction dramatically when he was elected to a fellowship at Eton and moved to Windsor, giving up his fellowship at Oxford. In 1583, Burghley appointed Chamber, with Henry Savile and Thomas Digges, to sit on a commission to consider whether England should adopt the Gregorian calendar, as proposed by John Dee, and in 1584 he applied through Merton for a licence to practise medicine. In 1593 Chamber received the preferment of prebendary of Netherbury in Terra at Salisbury Cathedral, and in June 1601 became a canon of Street George"s Chapel, Windsor. He died at Eton early in August 1604, and was entombed in Street George"s Chapel. A memorial there (since lost) recorded that Chamber left £1,000 to Merton to endow two scholarships for boys from Eton and £50 to assist the poor of Windsor.

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In October 1568 he graduated Bachelor at Merton College, Oxford, and in December of the next year was elected a probationary fellow of his college.

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He taught grammar, Greek, and medicine. His name is sometimes given in a Latin form as Johannes Chamberus. He proceeded to Master of Arts in October 1573, having already taken holy orders.

In 1574 he was appointed a lecturer on grammar and gave an oration on Ptolemy"s Almagest.

In 1576 he was appointed a lecturer on Greek and was also chosen as junior Linacre lecturer in medicine, a Merton College appointment which was repeated in 1579. In 1582 his life changed direction dramatically when he was elected to a fellowship at Eton and moved to Windsor, giving up his fellowship at Oxford.

In 1583, Burghley appointed Chamber, with Henry Savile and Thomas Digges, to sit on a commission to consider whether England should adopt the Gregorian calendar, as proposed by John Dee, and in 1584 he applied through Merton for a licence to practise medicine. In 1593 Chamber received the preferment of prebendary of Netherbury in Terra at Salisbury Cathedral, and in June 1601 became a canon of Street George"s Chapel, Windsor.

He died at Eton early in August 1604, and was entombed in Street George"s Chapel.

A memorial there (since lost) recorded that Chamber left £1,000 to Merton to endow two scholarships for boys from Eton and £50 to assist the poor of Windsor.

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