• Sir Thomas Hoby (1530 – 13 July 1566) was an English diplomat and translator. Hoby was born in 1530. He was the second son of William Hoby of Leominster...
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    Fortune: The Life of Thomas Howard, Third Duke of Norfolk. Athens, GA: University of Georgia. ISBN 9780820316833. Hoby, Thomas (1902). Powell, Edgar...
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  • Phillies Alan Hoby (1914-2008), English sports journalist Edward Hoby (1560–1617), English diplomat, son of Thomas Hoby Lady Margaret Hoby (1571–1633),...
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  • Thomas Hoby was an English diplomat and translator. Thomas Hoby may also refer to: Thomas Posthumous Hoby (1566–1640), English Puritan and politician...
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    just before the author's death. An influential English translation by Thomas Hoby was published in 1561. The book is organized as a series of conversations...
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  • Sir Thomas Posthumus Hoby (1566 – 30 December 1640), also spelt Hobie, Hobbie and Hobby, Posthumous and Postumus, was an English gentleman and politician...
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    Thomas Pitt (5 July 1653 – 28 April 1726) was an English merchant, colonial administrator and politician who served as the president of Fort St. George...
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    William Hoby of Leominster by his first wife, Catherine Forster. He was the elder half-brother of Sir Thomas Hoby, father of Edward and Thomas Posthumous...
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  • Thomas Hoby JP DL (1642 – c. 1706) of Bisham Abbey, Berkshire and Breamore, Hampshire, was an English politician. He was a younger son of the former Katherine...
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    Thomas Hoby: Edward (1560–1617), two girls who both died in childhood in 1571, and then another boy born after Thomas Hoby's death who was called Thomas Posthumus...
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  • printed Baldassare Castiglione's The courtyer ... done into Englyshe by Thomas Hoby in 1561. DNB "Primary Sources on Copyright - Home". "Primary Sources...
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    Travels and Life of Sir Thomas Hoby, pp. 116-117. Travels and Life of Sir Thomas Hoby, pp. 117-19. Travels and Life of Sir Thomas Hoby, pp. 120-23. Langbaine...
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  • 1766. Sir Edward Hoby, 1st Baronet (1634–1675) Sir John Hoby, 2nd Baronet (1635–1702), brother of the first baronet Sir Thomas Hoby, 3rd Baronet (1685–1730)...
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    soldier during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. He was the son of Thomas Hoby and Elizabeth Cooke, the nephew of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, and...
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    November 1564 – 30 November 1605). She was married to Sir Edward Hoby, son of Thomas Hoby and Elizabeth Cooke. In addition, Cary had several illegitimate...
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    Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier (1528, English 1561 by Sir Thomas Hoby), but chess should not be a gentleman's main passion. Castiglione explains...
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    ISBN 978-0436042829. Retrieved 25 November 2013. Hoby, Thomas (1902). Powell, Edgar (ed.). The Travels and Life of Sir Thomas Hoby, Kt of Bisham Abbey, written by himself...
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  • 1505) April 25 – Louise Labé, French poet (born c. 1524) July 13 – Thomas Hoby, English translator (born 1530) October 10 – Hentenius, Flemish biblical...
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    Trent and accusations of heretical crypto-Lutheranism at the conclave. Thomas Hoby, visiting Rome so as to be present in the city during the conclave, recorded...
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  • of Sir Thomas Hoby, Kt., Written by Himself. 1547–1564. (Royal Historical Society, London 1902), pp. 116-117. Travels and Life of Sir Thomas Hoby, pp. 117-19...
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    giant, Gogmagog or Goemagot upon the cliff top known as Lamm Goemagot. Thomas Hoby writes that, in 1551 at Chastenbriant, the French king showed my Lord...
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  • books) Sir Thomas Hoby – The Book of the Courtier (Il Cortegiano, translation) Julius Caesar Scaliger – Poetices Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville –...
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  • Sir Thomas Hoby, 4th Baronet (after 1706 – 1 June 1744), of Bisham, Berkshire, was an English Member of Parliament (MP). He was a Member of the Parliament...
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  • sweetly imprinteth in it a passion full of great delite (translated by Sir Thomas Hoby, 1561). Though predominantly a composer of frottolas, a light secular...
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    dummies. The traveller and future translator of Castiglione's Cortegiano, Thomas Hoby, together with his friend Peter Whitehorne, translator of Machiavelli's...
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  • influence the Western world almost a half millennium later. In 1561, Thomas Hoby published The Courtyer, his translation of Il Cortegiano, (although he...
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  • in Gascon (died 1585) Baltasar del Alcázar, Spanish poet (died 1606) Thomas Hoby, English diplomat and translator (died 1566) Jan Kochanowski, Polish...
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    Russell, Baron Russell (c. 1553–1584), who married Elizabeth Hoby, widow of Sir Thomas Hoby and daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke. They had one son, Francis...
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    of Beauchamps Court and Anne (née Doddington) Greville (who married Thomas Hoby after the death of Lord Brooke in 1676). Together, they were the parents...
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  • Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper); the third, Elizabeth, married first Sir Thomas Hoby (died 1566), and then John Russell; another (Katherine Cooke) was the...
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