Background
He was born at Newcastle, and at an early age was sent to Christ"s College, Cambridge, where he studied under Cuthbert Scot.
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Nicholas Carr
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Christ"s College; Pembroke College.
Career
He subsequently migrated to Pembroke Hall, where his tutor was Nicholas Ridley, and proceeded Bachelor of Arts in 1541, being soon afterwards elected a fellow there, and commencing Master of Arts in 1544. On the foundation of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1546 he was nominated one of the original fellows, and the following year he was appointed regius professor of Greek. His lectures on Demosthenes, Plato, Sophocles, and other writers gained for him a reputation for scholarship.
He composed a panegyric on Martin Bucer, but he subscribed the catholic articles in 1556, and two years later he was one of those who bore witness on oath against the heresies and doctrine of Bucer and Paul Fagius.
He took the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1558, and for financial reasons began to practise at Cambridge as a physician, though for four years he continued to read the Greek lecture, at the end of which period he appointed Blithe of Trinity College to lecture for him. Carr died on 3 November 1568 at Cambridge.
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United Kingdom