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Elyot, Thomas

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Elyot, Thomas (c. 1490–1546)

English diplomat and scholar. In 1531 he published The Governour, the first treatise on education in English. He published the first Latin-English dictionary in 1538.

Elyot was born in Wiltshire. He was clerk of the Privy Council (1523–30), and a friend of the political thinker Thomas More.



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