Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Fryer, John (fl.1571)

1047962Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 20 — Fryer, John (fl.1571)1889Gordon Goodwin

FRYER, JOHN, M.D. (fl. 1571), physician, who has been erroneously described as the son of John Fryer, M.D. (d. 1563) [q. v.], was born at Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire, and educated at Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. in 1544, M.A. in 1548, and commenced M.D. in 1555, when he subscribed the Roman catholic articles. His college is not known. He was one of the disputants in the physic act kept before Queen Elizabeth in the university 7 Aug. 1564. He subsequently settled at Padua for the sake of his religion. He is author of: 1. ‘Hippocratis Aphorismi Versibus scripti … Per Iöannem Frerum Gormoncestrensem Anglum,’ 8vo, London, 1567, 24 leaves, dedicated to Sir William Cecil. It was subsequently incorporated in Ἱπποκράτους οἱ ἀφορισμοί πεζικοί τε καὶ ἔμμετρο, edited by Ralph Winterton, 8vo, Cambridge, 1633. 2. Latin verses, viz. (a) on the death of Bucer; (b) on the restoration of Bucer and Fagius; (c) prefixed to Bishop Alley's ‘The Poore Mans Librarie,’ 1565; (d) prefixed to ‘G. Haddoni Lucubrationes,’ 1567; (e) prefixed to Nicholas Carr's ‘Demosthenes,’ 1571; (f) on the death of Nicholas Carr in 1568.

[Cooper's Athenæ Cantabr. i. 302; Gillow's Bibliographical Dict. of the English Catholics, ii. 334–5.]

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