Life

He was born about 1506 in the neighbourhood of London. In 1522 he became a demy of Magdalen College, Oxford

Magdalen College, Oxford

Magdalen College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £153 million. Magdalen is currently top of the Norrington Table after over half of its 2010 finalists received first-class degrees, a record...

, and graduated B.A. on 21 June 1527 and M.A. on 10 March 1531. In 1534 he was appointed headmaster of Magdalen College School

Magdalen College School, Oxford

Magdalen College School is an independent school for boys aged 7 to 18 and girls in the sixth form, located on The Plain in Oxford, England. It was founded as part of Magdalen College, Oxford by William Waynflete in 1480....

. He held this post until 1540, when he was succeeded by Goodall. Subsequently he established himself near London, and devoted himself to original writings and translations. He died shortly after 1555.

Works

He was the author of:

• ‘A very fruitfull Exposition upon the Syxte Chapter of Saynte John. Written in Latin by … John Brencius and translated by Richard Shirrye,’ London, 1550.
• ‘A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes gathered out of the best Grammarians and Oratours. … Whereunto is added a declamation … written fyrst in Latin by Erasmus,’ London, n.d.; 1550.
• ‘St. Basill the Great his letter to Gregory Nazaanzen translated by Richard Sherrie,’ London, n.d.
• ‘A Treatise of the Figures of Grammer [sic] and Rhetorike,’ London, 1555.

John Sherry

According to Edward Irving Carlyle writing in the Dictionary of National Biography

Dictionary of National Biography

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, Richard Sherry has sometimes been identified with John Sherry (d. 1551), who was in 1541 archdeacon of Lewes and rector of Chailey

Chailey

Chailey is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. It is located ten miles north of Lewes, on the A272 road from Winchester to Canterbury...

 in Sussex

Sussex

Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...

; he became precentor of St. Paul's, London, in 1543, and died in 1551.