Thomas Linacre

Thomas Linacre (or Lynaker) (c. 1460 – October 20, 1524) is a humanist scholar and physician, after whom Linacre College, Oxford and Linacre House The King's School, Canterbury are named.

Linacre is more of a scholar than a scientific investigator.

It is difficult to judge his practical skill in his profession, but it was highly esteemed in his own day.

He takes no part in political or theological questions, but his career as a scholar is characteristic of the critical period in the history of learning through which he lives.

He is one of the first Englishmen to study Greek in Italy.

His teachers sre some of the greatest scholars of the day.

Among his pupils is one—Erasmus—whose name alone will suffice to preserve the memory of his instructor in Greek, and others of note in letters and politics, such as Sir Thomas More, Prince Arthur and Queen Mary I of England.

John Colet, William Grocyn, William Lilye and other eminent scholars are his intimate friends, and he is esteemed by a still wider circle of literary correspondents in all parts of Europe.

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