John Cheke

Sir John Cheke (ko Cheek; 16 Yuni 1514 - 13 Satumba 1557) masanin ilimin gargajiya ne kuma ɗan siyasa. Ɗaya daga cikin manyan malamai na shekarunsa, kuma Farfesa na farko na Regius na Girkanci a Jami'ar Cambridge, ya taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen farfado da ilmantarwa na Girkanci. Ya kasance mai koyar da Yarima Edward, Sarki Edward VI na gaba, kuma wani lokacin ga Gimbiya Elizabeth. Daga tausayi mai karfi a cikin al'amuran addini, aikinsa na jama'a a matsayin shugaban Kwalejin Sarki, Cambridge, memba na Majalisar da kuma takaice a matsayin Sakataren Gwamnati a lokacin mulkin Sarki Edward  an kawo shi kusa da zuwan Sarauniya Maryamu a cikin 1553.  Ya tafi gudun hijira ta son rai a kasashen waje, da farko a karkashin lasisin sarauta (wanda ya wuce). An kama shi kuma an ɗaure shi a shekara ta 1556, kuma ya karkatar da bangaskiyarsa don kauce wa mutuwa ta hanyar konewa. Ya mutu ba da daɗewa ba, an ruwaito cewa ya yi nadama game da shawarar da ya yanke.

 Asalin da kuma aikin da ya gabata 
An ce dangin Cheke ko Cheeke sun samo asali ne daga Northamptonshire kuma sun fito ne daga Sir William de Butevillar . A lokacin haihuwar Yahaya, wurin zama na iyali ya kasance, sama da ƙarni guda, a Mottistone a cikin Isle of Wight . 
Mahaifin John, Peter Cheke na Cambridge  (ɗan Robert Cheke na Mottistone), shi ne Esquire Bedell na Jami'ar Cambridge daga 1509 har zuwa mutuwarsa a 1529. Mahaifiyar John ita ce Agnes Duffield, 'yar Andrew Duffield na Cambridge: An haifi John a wannan birni a 1514, kuma yana da' yan'uwa mata biyar, Ann, Alice, Elizabeth, Magdalen, da Maryamu. John Morgan, MA ne ya fara karatunsa na ilimin lissafi. Ya yi karatu a Kwalejin St John, inda ya ci gaba da karɓar B.A. a 1529, kuma ya sami Fellowship. Ya fara da MA a cikin shekara ta 1533. Malamin sa shi ne George Day, wanda ya zama abokin adawar Edwardian Reformation . 

A jami'a, Cheke, da abokinsa, Thomas Smith (ɗalibi na Dokar Jama'a a Kwalejin Queens), an yi la'akari da su sosai har Sarki Henry ya ba kowannensu nuni-nunen don tallafa musu a cikin karatunsu. Dukansu biyu sun yi sha'awar ilmantarwa na gargajiya na John Redman, wanda ya yi karatu a Paris, kuma ya nemi yin koyi da shi. Dukansu Kwalejin Queens (inda tasirin Erasmus ya kasance) da St John sun inganta ka'idodin Reformist wanda Cheke da Smith suka rungumi.

 Ayyukan ilimi 
Ta hanyar sulhu na Matthew Parker, Cheke ya sami goyon bayan Anne Boleyn ga ɗalibinsa William Bill don ci gaba da karatunsa. Bayan shekara guda a matsayin Master of St John's, kuma a matsayin Mataimakin Shugaban Jami'ar, Sarki Henry ya nada George Day a matsayin shugaban Kwalejin Sarki a 1538, Smith ya zama Orator na Jami'ar a 1537 a madadinsa. A shekara ta 1540, a lokacin da Sarki ya kirkiro Farfesa na Regius, an sanya Smith Farfesa na Shari'a, Farfesa na Cheke na Girkanci, da John Blythe (na Kwalejin Sarki)  Farfesa na Physick .  Blythe ya auri Alice, ɗaya daga cikin 'yan'uwa mata na Cheke, kafin 1536, kuma a cikin 1541 William Cecil (daga baya Lord Burleigh), ɗaliban Cheke, ya auri Mary Cheke, wani.  (Mary Cecil ta mutu shekaru biyu bayan haka, ta bar Cecil tare da ɗa, Thomas Cecil.) A shekara ta 1542 wata "Mistress Cheke" har yanzu tana zaune a gidan Cheke a Market Hill, Cambridge.