John Cheke
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Sir John Cheke was an English classical scholar and statesman. One of the foremost teachers of his age, and the first Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, he played a great part i
Portrait from the biography The Life of the Learned Sir John Cheke, Kt (1705) by John Strype
Mottistone Manor, the Cheke family seat on the Isle of Wight
John Cheke inscribed the names on a famous series of portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger.
King Edward VI by William Scrots, Royal Collection, Windsor
Thomas Cheek
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Sir Thomas Cheek, Cheeke or Cheke was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in every parliament between 1614 and 1653.
John Cheke
…of parliament and travelled in Italy in 1576–79. He was the translator of Francesco Negri's Italian morality play, Libero Arbitrio, as Freewyl. (Sir) Thomas Cheke, son of Henry, was also a member of parliament and settled at Pyrgo in Essex. He married Lady Essex Rich (daughter of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick…
The Cheeke girls, Essex and Anne, painted by van Dyck