10 Facts About William Grocyn

William Grocyn held various positions, including a fellow at New College and a reader in divinity at Magdalen College.

William Grocyn held several positions within the church, but his generosity led to financial difficulties.

William Grocyn died in 1519 and was buried in Maidstone.

In 1479, William Grocyn accepted the rectory of Newton Longville, in Buckinghamshire, but continued to live at Oxford.

Erasmus says in one of his letters that William Grocyn taught Greek at Oxford before his visit to Italy.

William Grocyn seems to have lived in Oxford until 1499, but by the time his friend John Colet became dean of St Paul's in 1504 he was living in London.

William Grocyn was chosen by Colet to deliver lectures in St Paul's.

William Grocyn held several preferments, but his generosity to his friends involved him in continual difficulties, and though in 1506 he was appointed on Archbishop Warham's recommendation master or warden of the College of All Saints, Maidstone in Kent, he was still obliged to borrow from his friends, and even to pledge his plate as a security.

William Grocyn died in 1519, and was buried in his collegiate church at Maidstone.

William Grocyn gives his name to the University of Oxford's chief lecturer on Classical languages.