Matthew Stokys

Matthew Stokys[1] is the third recorded Registrary[2] of the University of Cambridge.[3]

He was born in Eton and went to school there before entering King's College, Cambridge in 1531. He graduated B.A. in 1536 and M.A. in 1539. He was a Fellow of King's from 1534 to 1548. He was Esquire Bedell[4] from 1557 to 1585 and Registrary from 1558 until his death on 16 November 1591.

References
  1. National Archives
  2. University web-site
  3. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209-1751 Vol. iv. Saal – Zuinglius, (1927) p197
  4. "Endowments of the University of Cambridge" Clark, J.W. p588: Cambridge; CUP; 1904
Academic offices
Preceded by
John Mere		 Cambridge University Registrary
1558–1591		 Succeeded by
Thomas Smith


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