The Tudor Society
  • February 22 – Translator John Bury dies

    Bust of Isocrates from the Pushkin Museum with an excerpt of John Bury's translation of his speech Ad demonicum.

    On this day in Tudor history, 22nd February 1571, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, translator John Bury died.

    Bury was only about thirty-five years old at his death, but he’d suffered a fall from his horse six months earlier. Bury had broken his leg in the accident, a serious injury in those days and one which led to his death.

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