Grocyn

Grocyn, WILLIAM, the first who publicly taught Greek at Oxford, was born at Colerne, Wilts, about 1446, and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. He pursued his studies afterwards in Italy, acquiring a knowledge of Greek from the Greek exile Chalkondylas; and settled again in 1491 at Oxford, where Sir Thomas More was among his pupils. When Erasmus visited Oxford he lived in Grocyn's house, and he speaks of him as his 'patronus et præceptor.' In 1506 he became master of Allhallows' College, near Maidstone, and here he died in 1519.