Sir thomas elyot biography of michael

English politician and writer

Sir Thomas Elyot (c. 1496 – 26 March 1546) was an Englishdiplomat and scholar.

He is best known as one of the first proponents of the use of the English language for literary purposes.

Sir thomas elyot biography of michael

Early life

Thomas was the child of Sir Richard Elyot's first marriage with Alice De la Mare, but neither the date nor place of his birth is accurately known. Alice's first husband Thomas Dabridgecourt had died 10 Oct 1495 so this next marriage has to follow that date.

Anthony Wood claimed him as an alumnus of St Mary Hall, Oxford, while C. H. Cooper in the Athenae Cantabrigienses put in a claim for Jesus College, Cambridge.^[1] Elyot himself says in the preface to his Dictionary that he was educated under the paternal roof, and was from the age of twelve his own tutor.

He supplies, in the introduction to his Castel of Helth, a list of the authors he had read in philosophy and medicine, adding that a "worshipful phy