Thomas Byng (or Bynge) (died 1599) was an English academic and lawyer, Master of

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from 1571.

Life

He matriculated as a

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in May 1552, and proceeded B.A. in 1556. He was admitted fellow of his college 7 February 1558, and commenced M.A. 1559, and LL.D. 1570. In 1564, when Queen Elizabeth visited Cambridge, Byng made a Latin oration in her presence on the excellence of a monarchical government. He was proctor in the same year, and on 2 March 1565 became public orator. Byng became Master of Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1571, vice-chancellor of the university 1572, a member of the college of civilians 21 April 1572, and regius professor of the civil law at Cambridge 18 March 1573-4. He became

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24 July 1595. On 27 July 1578, with other dignitaries of the university, he visited the queen at Audley, and for a second time read a Latin oration in her presence. He died in December 1599, and was buried 23 December at

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. By his wife, Catherine (1553–1627), he had ten sons and two daughters. Besides writing orations, Byng edited Nicholas Carr's translations from

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(1571). He contributed Latin and Greek verses to Thomas Wilson's translation of Demosthenes (1570), and to the university collections issued on the restoration of

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and

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(1560), and on the death of

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(1587).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Byng, Thomas Year of birth missing 1599 deaths Masters of Clare College, Cambridge 16th-century scholars English lawyers Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge Regius Professors of Civil Law (University of Cambridge) 16th-century English lawyers