Eleanor's Family Tree:Information about John Ryves
John Ryves (b. 1536, d. date unknown)
Notes for John Ryves:
John Ryves, of Damory Court, heir to his grandfather and grandmother, was 20 years of age, 24 June 1556, according to Hutchins, who states also that he had a fortune of 20,000 pounds a year, an enormous sum for the time, and a considerable part of which was laid out in Dorset.He was the first of the family to matriculate at Oxford University where he was entered as a scholar of Corpus Christi College in 1547; obtaining the degree of B.A. supd., in 1551; was made a fellow in 1554; and received the degree of M.A., 22 July 1955 (Foster, Alumni Oxon.).He passed thence to the Middle Temple of the Inns of Court for the study of law, where he was admitted on 27 January 1555/6 as "son and heir of John Ryve of Blandford co. Dorset, gent." (Ingpen, Middle Temple Bench Book).