John Ponet
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John Ponet, sometimes spelled John Poynet, was an English Protestant churchman and controversial writer, the bishop of Winchester and Marian exile. He is now best known as a resistance theorist who ma
Sundial at Queens' College, Cambridge, designed by John Ponet
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
John Ponet
…pupil and one of the humanist circle of Thomas Smith, who claimed that the new pronunciation of Ancient Greek had been introduced by himself, Ponet, and John Cheke. Smith and Cheke also were proponents of mathematics, and Ponet was one of their numerous followers. A sundial of his design was installed at Hampton…
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