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In 1561 he became the first headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School in London, where he wrote his two treatises on education, Positions (1581) and Elementarie (1582). Merchant Taylors' School was at that time the largest school in the country, and Mulcaster worked to establish a rigorous curriculum which was to set the standard for education in Latin, Greek and Hebrew.
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Roger Ascham (/ ˈ æ s k ə m /; c. 1515 – 30 December 1568) [1] was an English scholar and didactic writer, famous for his prose style, his promotion of the vernacular, and his theories of education.
Richard Huloet was a 16th-century [1] English lexicographer. He was born at Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire. [2] He was a contemporary of Peter Levens, John Withals, and John Véron. According to some sources, Samuel Johnson and he were the first writers in the English language to use the term "honeymoon".
Early Modern English (sometimes abbreviated EModE [1] or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor period to the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English, in the late 15th century, to the transition to Modern English, in the mid-to-late 17th century.
William Webbe (fl. 1568–1591) [1] was an English critic and translator. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, [2] and was a tutor for distinguished families, including the two sons of Edward Sulyard of Flemyngs, Essex, and later the children of Henry Grey of Pirgo, also in Essex.
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Thomas Wilson (1524–1581), Esquire, LL.D., [1] [2] was an English diplomat and judge who served as a privy councillor and Secretary of State (1577–81) to Queen Elizabeth I. He is remembered especially for his Logique (1551) [3] and The Arte of Rhetorique (1553), [4] which have been called "the first complete works on logic and rhetoric in ...