Degory Wheare
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| Born | 1573 Jacobstow, Cornwall |
| Died | 1 August 1647 (aged 73–74) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Camden Professor of Ancient History |
Degory Wheare, also spelt Digory Whear (the first name can be Latinized as Degoreus or Digoreus) (1573 – 1 August 1647) was an historian, the first Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford.
He was born in Jacobstow, Cornwall, at the mansion of Berry Court. He matriculated at Broadgates Hall, Oxford, on 6 July 1593, graduated B.A. on 5 February 1597, and proceeded M.A. on 16 June 1600. He was a contemporary of Francis Rous, a lifelong friend; and he was tutor at Broadgates Hall to John Pym (matriculated 18 May 1599). Another Oxford friend was Charles Fitzgeoffrey.
Wheare was admitted on 7 July 1602 as Cornish fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and became full fellow on 7 July 1603. He was headmaster of Abingdon School from 1605-1606. He resigned his fellowship on 30 April 1608. In that year he went abroad as travelling companion to Grey Brydges, 5th Baron Chandos; and on his return to England Wheare continued to live with him. He was then permitted to occupy lodgings with his wife in Gloucester Hall, Oxford, where he became a close friend of Thomas Allen.
Through the influence of Allen with William Camden, the founder of the chair, Wheare was appointed on 16 October 1622 the first professor of modern history at Oxford, and he became principal of Gloucester Hall on 4 April 1626, where he expanded the student population. Anthony Wood says that Wheare ‘was esteemed by some a learned and genteel man, and by others a Calvinist.’
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