From The Modern Encyclopedia, published in the early 1930s:
Sir Thomas Elyot. English diplomatist and scholar. Born c.1490, in Wiltshire, he was knighted by Henry VIII and sent on several embassies. His most famous work is The Book named The Governor, 1531, the first on the subject of education written and printed in the English language. He also compiled a Latin-English dictionary, 1538. He died at Carleton, Cambridgeshire, March 20, 1546.