Dee, John (1527-07-13 - 1608-03-25)

John Dee was born on 13 July 1527 in London, the son of Rowland Dee, a gentleman server to Henry VIII. He was admitted pensioner at St John's College, Cambridge in November 1542. He matriculated in 1544 and graduated B.A. in 1545/6, proceeding M.A. in 1548 from the newly founded Trinity College. In 1546, he became a fellow of both St John's and Trinity. In 1548, he travelled to Louvain to study. From 1595 until his death in December 1608, he was warden of Manchester College, Lancashire. Dee is best remembered today as a mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary. See William H. Sherman, John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995); Glyn Parry, The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2011).