Thomas Byng (or Bynge) (died 1599) was an English academic and lawyer, Master of

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from 1571.

Life

He matriculated as a

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at Peterhouse in May 1552, and proceeded B.A. in 1556. He was admitted fellow of his college 7 February 1558, and commenced M.A. 1559, and LL.D. 1570. In 1564, when Queen Elizabeth visited Cambridge, Byng made a Latin oration in her presence on the excellence of a monarchical government. He was proctor in the same year, and on 2 March 1565 became public orator. Byng became Master of Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1571, vice-chancellor of the university 1572, a member of the college of civilians 21 April 1572, and

regius professor of the civil law at Cambridge The Regius Professorship of Civil Law is one of the oldest and most prestigious of the List of Professorships at the University of Cambridge, professorships at the University of Cambridge. The chair was founded by Henry VIII of England, Henry VI ...

18 March 1573-4. He became dean of arches 24 July 1595. On 27 July 1578, with other dignitaries of the university, he visited the queen at Audley, and for a second time read a Latin oration in her presence. He died in December 1599, and was buried 23 December at Hackney Church,

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. By his wife, Catherine (1553–1627), he had ten sons and two daughters. Besides writing orations, Byng edited Nicholas Carr's translations from

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(1571). He contributed Latin and Greek verses to Thomas Wilson's translation of Demosthenes (1570), and to the university collections issued on the restoration of

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and

Paul Fagius Paul Fagius (1504 – 13 November 1549) was a Renaissance scholar of Biblical Hebrew and Protestant reformer. Life Fagius was born at Rheinzabern in 1504. His father was a teacher and council clerk. In 1515 he went to study at the University o ...

(1560), and on the death of Sir Philip Sidney (1587).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Byng, Thomas Year of birth missing 1599 deaths Masters of Clare College, Cambridge 16th-century English scholars English lawyers Vice-chancellors of the University of Cambridge Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge Regius Professors of Civil Law (University of Cambridge) 16th-century English lawyers