WALTER CHARLETON BIOGRAPHY
WALTER CHARLETON BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
CHARLETON, WALTER (1619-1707). —Miscellaneous writer, ed. at Oxf., was titular physician to Charles I. He was a copious writer on theology, natural history, and antiquities, and pub. Chorea Gigantum (1663) to prove that Stonehenge was built by the Danes. He was also one of the "character" writers, and in this kind of literature wrote A Brief Discourse concerning the Different Wits of Men (1675).