279:. He led negotiations that secured the land and funding for the college. Upon the college admitting its first students in 1594, he served as Vice Chancellor and then as Vice Provost during the first Commencement ceremony of the University of Dublin in 1601. On his death in 1613 the tradition began with him of the burial of the Provost on campus.
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The suppression of monasteries in 1538 by King Henry VIII saw the closure of the 12th century
Augustinian priory called All Hallows. The site of this monastery was chosen for a new college during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. John's nephew Luke Challoner was intricately involved from the inception of
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Challoner grave was inside the College Chapel but reconstruction in the late 19th century saw the layout of the building change. The first College Chapel was replaced with a new building (the current chapel) in 1798. The graves of the college provosts now lie outside the north-eastern
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to Lambay for that purpose fell through. In 1563, French pirates raided Lambay Island taking all they could of John
Challoner's fortune, worth some £300. Ultimately, despite an annual salary of £50 as Secretary of State (including an additional 10s. a day while on the Queen's business), his heir
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in recognition, but turned it down, saying: "No my Lord, it will be more to my credit and my posterity's to have it said that John
Challoner served the Queen upon occasion, than to say that Sir John Challoner did it." The Kavanaghs and their supporters were driven out of Dublin and captured at
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There is a story told of John
Challoner's defence of the city while Mayor, however the episode happened some months before his election and may have indeed contributed, if true, to his election later that year. In May 1556 the
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Offices of Secretary of State for Ireland and Keeper of the Royal Privy Seal, in "Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature" (1928), p.
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Offices of Secretary of State for Ireland and Keeper of the Royal Privy Seal, in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature (1928), p.
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asking to be relieved of the office in favour of his own brother
Francis, as he wanted to concentrate on developing silver and gold mining on Lambay; but he stayed on until his death in 1581 when he was replaced by
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Westropp, The Promontory forts and adjoining remains in Leinster (Part I, Dublin), in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, (Vol 12, No. 1, 1922) p. 68
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designed residence, but was completely demolished in 1837. Challoner appears to have spent the 1550s moving mostly between London and Calais before settling permanently in Dublin.
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Mining is known to have occupied a great deal of
Challoner's attention. In addition to attempting to mine on Lambay Island, he also tried to expand his interests in mines in
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of the Buttery, this small cemetery — the smallest in Ireland — is known as Challoner's Corner. As well as Luke Challoner, there are eight recorded burials there, including
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may have initially nominated Challoner to the office because of his experience as an auditor in Calais, as Sussex particularly burdened Challoner with the collection of the
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Judith Barry, Sir Geoffrey Fenton and the Office of Secretary of State for Ireland, 1580–1608, in Irish Historical Studies, (Vol 35, No. 138, 2006), pp. 137–159
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John Challoner was born around 1525 to Margaret Myddleton and Roger Challoner (c. 1490–1550). Roger Challoner was a London silk merchant, a
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It has been argued that during Challoner's time as Secretary of State he did not become an independent and powerful Secretary, like
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in 1538. Both John and his brother Francis Challoner settled in Dublin: their brother was the Elizabethan ambassador and statesman,
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until its abolition in 1922. As Secretary, Challoner's role also included that of Keeper of the Royal Signet and membership of the
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Luke Challoner had attended Trinity College, Cambridge and christened the new educational institution in the capital city of the
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which convened on 12 January 1560. In 1560 Challoner was appointed as the English Crown's Secretary of State for Ireland by
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and a hundred and fifty fire arms" which he had imported at his own expense from Spain. He was reputedly offered a
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tax, restricting Challoner's opportunity for influencing the Irish Privy Council. Likewise, during
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