SIR THOMAS ELYOT BIOGRAPHY
SIR THOMAS ELYOT BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
ELYOT, SIR THOMAS (1490-1546). —Diplomatist, physician, and writer, held many diplomatic appointments. He wrote The Governor (1531), a treatise on education, in which he advocated gentler treatment of schoolboys, The Castle of Health (1534), a medical work, and A Defence of Good Women (1545). He also in 1538 pub. the first Latin and English Dictionary , and made various translations .