William Frere
William Frere (28 November 1775 – 25 May 1836), was an English lawyer and academic, a law-serjeant and Master of Downing College, Cambridge.[2] In the same year he was elected to the Craven scholarship, and subsequently won several university honours, among them the senior chancellor's medal.He was serjeant-at-law in 1809, and three years later was elected Master of Downing College, his appointment being unsuccessfully contested at law.Some Latin and Greek verse by Frere was published with William Herbert's Fasciculus Carminum stylo Lucretiano scriptorum, 1797.[3] During Frere's time, chiefly through his wife, Downing College was a social centre at Cambridge.