Maurice Meyricke

Maurice Meyricke (ca. 1563 – 1640) was a Welsh academic at the University of Oxford in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Life

Meyricke, from Anglesey, matriculated from New College, Oxford on 11 May 1582 with a scholarship at the age of 19. He obtained his BA degree on 27 October 1585 and his MA degree on 2 June 1589. He also became a Fellow of New College at about this time. He was the Registrar of the University of Oxford from 1600 to 1608.[1] He was appointed as a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford in the royal charter of 1622 issued by James I.[2] He died in 1640.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Foster, Joseph (1891–1892). Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714. ISBN 978-1855068438 (reprint). 
  2. ^ Allen, Brigid (1998). "The Early History of Jesus College, Oxford 1571–1603". Oxoniensia (Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society) LXIII: 117. http://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1998/allen.pdf. Retrieved 16 August 2010.