Richard Sherry


Richard Sherry was an English schoolteacher and author.

Life

He was born about 1506 in the neighbourhood of London. In 1522 he became a demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. on 21 June 1527 and M.A. on 10 March 1531. In 1534 he was appointed headmaster of Magdalen College School. He held this post until 1540, when he was succeeded by Goodall. Subsequently he established himself near London, and devoted himself to original writings and translations. He died shortly after 1555.

Works

According to Edward Irving Carlyle writing in the Dictionary of National Biography, Richard Sherry has sometimes been identified with John Sherry, who was in 1541 archdeacon of Lewes and rector of Chailey in Sussex; he became precentor of St. Paul's, London, in 1543, and died in 1551.