Background
He was born about 1506 in the neighbourhood of London.
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Richard Sherry
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In 1522 he became a demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, and graduated Bachelor of Arts on 21 June 1527 and Master of Arts
Career
On 10 March 1531. In 1534 he was appointed headmaster of Magdalen College School. He held this post until 1540, when he was succeeded by Goodall. Subsequently he established himself near London, and devoted himself to original writings and translations.
He died shortly after 1555.
According to Edward Irving Carlyle writing in the Dictionary of National Biography, Richard Sherry has sometimes been identified with (d 1551), who was in 1541 archdeacon of Lewes and rector of Chailey in Sussex. He became precentor of Saint Paul"s, London, in 1543, and died in 1551.
