Nicholas Carr (1524–1568) was an English classical scholar, regius professor of Greek at Cambridge in 1547, and a physician.

Life

He was born at

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, and at an early age was sent to

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, where he studied under Cuthbert Scot. He subsequently migrated to

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, where his tutor was Nicholas Ridley, and proceeded B.A. in 1541, being soon afterwards elected a fellow there, and commencing M.A. in 1544. On the foundation of

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in 1546 he was nominated one of the original fellows, and the following year he was appointed regius professor of Greek. His lectures on

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, and other writers gained for him a reputation for scholarship. He composed a panegyric on

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, 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

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. He took the degree of M.D. 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

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Works

He is best known for ''De Scriptorum Britannicorum Paucitate et Studiorum Impedimentis Oratio'' (printed 1576). edited by Thomas Hatcher. His other works are; *''Epistola de morte Buceri ad Johannem Checum'', London, 1561, reprinted in Bucer's ''Scripta Anglicana'', Basle, 1677, and in Conrad Hubert's ''Historia vera de vita M. Buceri'', Strasburg, 1562. *''Eusebii Pamphili de vita Constantini'', Louvain, 1570. The fourth book only was translated by Carr; the others were translated by John Christopherson. *''Demosthenis Graecorum Oratorum Principis Olynthiacae orationes tres, et Philippicae quatuor, e Greco in Latinum conversae'', London, 1571.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carr, Nicholas 1524 births 1568 deaths Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge 16th-century English medical doctors English medical writers 16th-century English writers 16th-century English male writers Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge 16th-century writers in Latin Regius Professors of Greek (Cambridge)