Elyot, Sir Thomas

Related Category: English Literature, 1500 to 1799: Biographies

(ĕl´yət, ĕl´ēət), c.1490–1546, English author. He wrote the earliest Latin-English dictionary (1538) and is remembered especially for his sensible and well-written treatise on the education of statesmen, The Book Named the Governour (1531).