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Definition of Playfere

Playfere
Playfere Play"fere`, n. [Play + 1st fere.] A playfellow. [Obs.] [Also, playfeer, playphere.] --Holinsheld.

Meaning of Playfere from wikipedia

- Thomas Playfere (also Playford) (1561? – 2 February 1609) was an English churchman and theologian, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at Cambridge from...
- 1570 John Still 1573 John Hansome (or Hanson) 1574 Peter Baro 1596 Thomas Playfere (or Playford) 1609 John Davenant 1623 Samuel Ward 1643 Richard Holdsworth...
- Academic offices Preceded by Thomas Playfere Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity 1609–1618 Succeeded by Samuel Ward Preceded by Humphrey Tyndall President...
- now the Cambridge University Library site. There are memorials to Thomas Playfere (1609, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity), James Es**** (architect)...
- John James Stewart Perowne James Pilkington Leonard Pilkington Thomas Playfere Arthur Michael Ramsey Michael Ramsey John Randolph Edward Craddock Ratcliffe...
- university, receiving twelve votes, while twenty-eight were recorded for Thomas Playfere. On 9 April 1597 he was elected a senior fellow of his college. On 5 November...