George Ryves ( – 31 May 1613) was an

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academic administrator at the

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. He was born in

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, second of the eight sons of John Ryves (1532–1587) of Damory Court near

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and Elizabeth Marvyn, daughter of Sir

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, and his first wife Jane Baskerville. He came from a gifted clan: of his brothers, Sir Thomas Ryves was an acknowledged expert on

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, and another brother, Sir

William Ryves Sir William Ryves (1570–1647) was a barrister and judge, and a member of a distinguished Dorsetshire family. He enjoyed a successful legal career in Ireland, holding office as Attorney-General for Ireland and as a justice of the Court of King's B ...

, had a highly successful career as a Law Officer and High Court

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. Bruno Ryves,

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was a cousin. His widowed mother made her home with George in New College, and died at a ripe age in 1609. Ryves was educated at

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, where he gained a scholarship aged 12 in 1574, and

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, where he matriculated in 1579, graduating

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1582,

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1586, B.D. 1594,

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1599. In the church, Ryves became chaplain to the

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and canon of

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in 1598, and held the following livings: * Rector of

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, Dorset (1589) * Rector of

Alverstoke Alverstoke is a village in the borough of Gosport, on the south coast of Hampshire, England. It stretches east–west from Fort Blockhouse, Haslar to Browndown Battery, and is centred east of the shore of Stokes Bay and near the head of a cree ...

, Hampshire (1591) * Rector of Stanton St. John, Oxfordshire (1600) * Rector of

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, Wiltshire (1606) * Rector of

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, Hampshire (1608) Ryves was elected

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(head) of

, in 1599, a post he held until his death in 1613. During his time as Warden of New College, he was also

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from 1601 until 1602. Ryves was involved in the translation of the

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. Gustavus Paine notes that a letter from

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refers to Ryves as "one of the overseers of that part of the

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that is being translated out of

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