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He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1566 and Master of Arts
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John Studley
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He contributed to the Seneca his tenne tragedies translated into English (1581), compiled by Thomas Newton and the sole printed translations of Seneca available in Elizabethan England. Some echoes of his work have been detected in Shakespeare. Born about 1545, he was one of the original scholars of Westminster School, and the earliest to be elected to Cambridge.
He matriculated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1561.
His translations were made as an undergraduate. in 1570, being elected a fellow of the college in the interval. Studley"s religious opinions were strongly Calvinistic.
On 1 February 1573 he was summoned before the heads of colleges at Cambridge on a charge of nonconformity. A few months later he vacated his fellowship.
Nothing further is definitely known of his life.
