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          I'm here to interview Sir Thomas Bodley, after whom the world-famous Bodleian Library was named.

        1. I'm here to interview Sir Thomas Bodley, after whom the world-famous Bodleian Library was named.
        2. ' Bodley's autobiography can lay claim to being the first real published autobiography in English.
        3. Reflecting on the meaning of this pattern, Bodley chose to give his autobiography a larger appli- cation by casting it as a kind of parable of the Tudor.
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        5. From Bodley's early education in Calvinist Switzerland to his studies at Oxford and his later career as one of Queen Elizabeth's elite ambassadors, The Life of.

          6. Reflecting on the meaning of this pattern, Bodley chose to give his autobiography a larger appli- cation by casting it as a kind of parable of the Tudor.!

          The Diplomatic Correspondence of Thomas Bodley, 1585-1597

          Thomas Bodley was born in 1545 to a Devon family associated with religious reform.

          With the rest of his family, he followed his father into exile in 1555, and was educated briefly in the Geneva Academy until Mary I’s death, and his family’s return to England in 1559. Bodley immediately entered Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating BA in 1563, and was accepted as a probationer fellow of Merton College.

          Following a string of distinguished posts, including holding Merton’s first lectureship in Greek, Bodley took leave from Oxford in 1576 to travel through Europe.

          Now, continuing the theme of libraries, we are pleased to feature an imaginary interview with Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of Oxford's Bodleian.

          He visited France, Germany and Italy, before returning to Merton. In 1586 he resigned his fellowship following a period of increasing involvement in political affairs. He was appointed gentleman usher to Elizabeth I in 1583, and served in two parliaments, 1584 (Portsmouth, Hampshire) and 1586 (St Germans, Cornwall).

          In April 1585 Bodley was sent to the King of Denmark