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George Lily (died 1559) was an English Roman Catholic priest, biographer and topographer.

Life

Son of William Lilye the grammarian, by Agnes his wife, he was a native of London, and became a commoner of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1528. Leaving the university without a degree he travelled to Rome, where he found a patron in Cardinal Pole, and became noted for his erudition. After his return to England he was collated to the prebend of Kentish Town or Cantlers, in St. Paul's Cathedral, on 22 November 1556. Cardinal Pole, to whom he was domestic chaplain, collated him on 13 March 1558 to a canonry in the first prebend of Canterbury Cathedral. He died in 1559 before 29 July, and it is supposed that he was buried near the body of his father in St. Paul's churchyard.

Works

Lily wrote:

‘Virorum aliquot in Britannia, qui nostro seculo eruditione, et doctrina clari, memorabilesque fuerunt, Elogia, per Georgium Lilium Britannum, exarata.’ Dedicated to Paul Jovius, bishop of Nocera, and printed in his ‘Descriptio Britanniæ, Scotiæ, Hyberniæ, et Orchadum,’ Venice, 1548, together with other contributions by Lily, viz.: ‘Nova et Antiqua Locorum Nomina in Anglia et in Scotia’; ‘Anglorum Regum Chronices Epitome,’ down to the year 1547, (reprinted, Frankfort, 1565, with continuation to the accession of Elizabeth in 1558–9; Basle, 1577, &c.; Frankfort, 1614; also in vol. i. of Polydore Vergil's ‘Historia Anglica,’ Douay, 1603); ‘Lancastriæ et Eboracensis de regno contentiones’; ‘Regum Angliæ Genealogia’.

Lily is also credited with ‘Catalogus sive Series Pontificorum et Cæsarum Romanorum,’ and a ‘Life of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester’. John Bale mentions ‘De vitâ, moribus, et fine Thomæ Cranmeri,’ by Lily, in his manuscript notes to the ‘Scriptores Majoris Britanniæ;’ and the first exact map of Great Britain, which was afterwards engraved, is assigned to him.

References

Dictionary of National Biography, Lily, George (d 1559), Roman catholic divine, by Thompson Cooper. Published 1892.

External links

Notes from Lily's Map of Great Britain, 1546

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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 ==Life==
-Son of [[William Lily]] the grammarian, by Agnes his wife, he was a native of London, and became a commoner of [[Magdalen College, Oxford]], in 1528. Leaving the university without a degree he travelled to Rome, where he found a patron in [[Cardinal Pole]], and became noted for his erudition. After his return to England he was collated to the prebend of Kentish Town or Cantlers, in [[St. Paul's Cathedral]], on 22 November 1556. Cardinal Pole, to whom he was domestic chaplain, collated him on 13 March 1558 to a canonry in the first prebend of [[Canterbury Cathedral]]. He died in 1559 before 29 July, and it is supposed that he was buried near the body of his father in St. Paul's churchyard.
+Son of [[William Lilye]] the grammarian, by Agnes his wife, he was a native of London, and became a commoner of [[Magdalen College, Oxford]], in 1528. Leaving the university without a degree he travelled to Rome, where he found a patron in [[Cardinal Pole]], and became noted for his erudition. After his return to England he was collated to the prebend of Kentish Town or Cantlers, in [[St. Paul's Cathedral]], on 22 November 1556. Cardinal Pole, to whom he was domestic chaplain, collated him on 13 March 1558 to a canonry in the first prebend of [[Canterbury Cathedral]]. He died in 1559 before 29 July, and it is supposed that he was buried near the body of his father in St. Paul's churchyard.
 ==Works==