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===[[name::George]] [[name::FOLBURY]] or [[name::FOWLBERRY]] d.[[date of death::1540]]===

====Biographical Note====
Possibly a younger son of [[family::Richard Fowberry]], of [[location::Fowberry, Northumberland]]. BA [[education::Pembroke College, Cambridge]] 1514, MA 1517, later [[occupation::fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge|fellow]] there. He may have taken a DD degree from the [[education::University of Montpellier]]. He was possibly a tutor to Henry Fitzroy, Henry VIII's illegitimate son; he became a [[occupation::canon]] of [[location::North Newbold, Yorkshire]] in 1531, held other ecclesiastical livings, and was made [[occupation::Master]] of [[organisations::Pembroke College, Cambridge|Pembroke College]] in 1537. He is reputed to have been a [[occupation::poet]], but no works of his survive.

====Books====
Folbury's probate inventory includes 23 titles, in 27 volumes, valued at £1 7s (from a total estate valued at ca.£52). The books are almost entirely [[language::Latin]], with a predominance of [[subject::theology]], including some works by Luther and a [[language::German]] (or [[language::Dutch]]) testament. The full inventory is edited as Leedham-Green no.7 (see full citation below).

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*Leedham-Green, E. S., ''Books in Cambridge inventories'', Cambridge, 1986, no.7/pp.17-18.
*Murphy, Beverley A. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9782 "Folbury, George (d. 1540), college head."] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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