John Harmar

, a most noted Latinist, Grecian, and Divine, was born at a Market Town called Newbury in Berks, educated in Grammaticals in Wykehams School, admitted perpetual Fellow of New coll. 1574. took the degrees in Arts, was made the Kings Professor of the Greek Tongue in this University, 1585. (being then in holy Orders,) one of the Proctors thereof two years after, chief Master of Winchester School for nine years, Warden of the coll. there 17 years, and at length Doctor of Divinity, being always accounted a most solid Theologist, admirably well read in the Fathers and Schoolmen, and in his younger years a subtile Aristotelian. The chief actions of his Life, an account of his travels, of his disputing at Paris with the great Doctors of the Rom. Party, and also of the things that he had written and published, his Nephew John Harmar (whom I shall mention under the year 1670.) promised to give unto me a full narration in writing; but sickness, and death soon after, following, prevented him. He hath published, (1) Chrysostomi Archiep. Constant, Homeliae sex, ex MSS. cod. in bib. coll. Novi. Oxon. 1586. (2) Chrysostomi Homeliae ad populum Antiochenum, omnes, exceptâ primâ, cum Latinâ versione Homeliae decimae nonae, quae in latinis etiam exemplaribus hactenus desiderata est. Lond. 1590. He also translated from French into English, Sermons on the three first Chapters of the Canticles. Ox. 1587, qu. Written by Theod. Beza: And from Lat. into English, Sermons on the 10. Commandments. Lord. 1581. qu. written by Joh. Calvin; and had a prime hand in the translation of the New Testament into English, at the command of K. Jam. 1. an. 1604. At length paying his last debt to nature on the eleventh of Oct. in sixteen hundred and thirteen, 1613 was buried at the upper end of New coll. Choire. His Epitaph you may read in a book intit. Historia & Antiquit. Vniv. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 152. a. He was a considerable Benefactor to the Libraries of both Wykehams colleges.