biography
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Elyot, Sir Thomas
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also spelled Eliot
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| lived:
| (c.1490–1546)
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| biography:
| Writer and diplomat, born in Wiltshire, S England, UK. In 1523 he became clerk of the king's council, was ambassador to Emperor Charles V in 1531–2, and became MP for Cambridge in 1542. His chief work, The Boke Named the Gouernour (1531), is the earliest English treatise on moral philosophy. He was a strong supporter of the use of English (as opposed to Latin and Greek) in scholarly work and added many new words to the language, including encyclopaedia (1539). He was knighted in 1530. |
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