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John Colet (January 1467 – 16 September 1519) was an English Catholic priest and educational pioneer. Colet was an English scholar, Renaissance humanist , theologian, member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers , and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral , London.
St Paul's School is a selective independent day school (with limited boarding) for boys aged 13–18, [1] founded in 1509 by John Colet [2] and located on a 43-acre [3] [4] site by the Thames in London.
Main building of the school in Brook Green area. St Paul's Girls' School was founded by the Worshipful Company of Mercers in 1904, using part of the endowment of the foundation set up by John Colet, to create a girls' school to complement the boys' school he had founded in the sixteenth century.
He assisted his friend John Colet by authoring Greek textbooks and securing members of staff for the newly established St Paul's School [82] and was in contact when Colet gave his notorious 1512 Convocation sermon which called for a reformation of ecclesiastical affairs. [83]: 230–250 At Colet's instigation, Erasmus started work on De copia.
For example, St Paul's School in London was founded in 1512 by John Colet to teach 153 poor men's children: although the school is now considerably larger, it still has 153 Foundation Scholars, who since the 19th century have worn a fish emblem on their watch-chains, or, more recently, in their button-holes. [20] [21]
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The bulk of the colloquy are accounts (in turns sardonic and interested) of pilgrimages Erasmus had made in England: to the then pre-eminent English Marian shrine at Walsingham and to Thomas a Beckett's shrine at Canterbury (with John Colet), segueing into discussions of fables in general, lavish funerals, and not leaving to Saints affairs that ...
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