Education
He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1686.
literary editor scholar of Scottish
He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1686.
Matriculating from Christ Church, Oxford on 30 June 1682, he was elected to a studentship. At the end of 1711, Christ Church"s dean Francis Atterbury convinced a reluctant Urry to edit a proposed new edition of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Though the work was incomplete on Urry"s death 4 years later (he is buried at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford) and had to be completed and revised by Timothy and William Thomas, Urry"s work on it – the first edition of Chaucer to be entirely in Roman type – posthumously made his name.