Robert Whittington

Robert Whittington (also spelt Wittinton, Whitynton, or Whitinton; c. 1480 – c. 1553) was an English grammarian. He was a pupil at Magdalen College School, Oxford, where he probably studied under the grammarian John Stanbridge.

Quotes

• As time requireth, a man of marvellous mirth and pastimes, and sometime of as sad gravity, as who say: a man for all seasons.
  • Of Sir Thomas More, in Vulgaria (1521), pt. 2: De constructione nominum. Cp. Erasmus, preface to In Praise of Folly (1509): omnium horarum hominem.

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Robert Whittington on Wikipedia