Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Thomas Elyot
Abt 1497 - 1546 (~ 49 years)-
Name Thomas Elyot Birth Abt 1497 [1] Gender Male Death 25 Mar 1546 Carlton, Cambridgeshire, England 
[1, 2] Alternate death 26 Mar 1546 [3] Burial Carlton, Cambridgeshire, England [3] Person ID I41565 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 14 Nov 2024
Father Richard Elyot, b. Abt 1455 d. Bef 26 May 1522 (Age ~ 67 years) Mother Alice Delamere d. Bef 1510 Marriage Abt 1496 [1] Family ID F24309 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Margaret Abarrow Family ID F24313 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 13 Nov 2024
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Notes - Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire in 1539. Ambassador to the court of Charles V in 1531-32.
"The historically-significant career of Sir Thomas Elyot as an author, lexicographer, and humanist is well-described elsewhere. Among the highlights of his career, he was clerk to the Privy Council, ambassador to Charles V, and a member of Parliament. He also wrote a Latin-English dictionary, considered his most important contribution; though his The Boke Named the Gouernour [Governor] is perhaps his most famous work. He was knighted in 1530. His wife Margaret was educated by Sir Thomas More, and both of them moved in his circle for some time. Chalk and ink portraits of both Thomas and Margaret, drawn by Hans Holbein the younger about 1535, have survived." [Kelly M. Keegan, citation details below]
Keegan notes that several sources claim that Thomas Elyot was born around 1490 -- these certainly include the History of Parliament and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography -- and yet his parents could not have married until late 1495 at the earliest, and probably around 1496. So the date of "c. 1510" given by HoP for his marriage seems likely to be early.
- Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire in 1539. Ambassador to the court of Charles V in 1531-32.
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Sources - [S7899] Kelly M. Keegan, "New Information on the Ancestry of Felix Carter of Claydon, Oxfordshire, Grandfather of Thomas1 Boreman of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Samuel1 Boreman of Ipswich and Wethersfield, Connecticut." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 178:332, Fall 2024.
- [S1660] William Wyman Fiske, "Ancestry of Bennet Eliot of Nazeing, Essex, Father of Seven Great Migration Immigrants to Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 161:85, 161:186, 161:250 (2007), 162:65, and 162:128 (2008)., year only.
- [S47] The History of Parliament. Some citations point to entries from the printed volumes not yet added to the online site.
- [S7899] Kelly M. Keegan, "New Information on the Ancestry of Felix Carter of Claydon, Oxfordshire, Grandfather of Thomas1 Boreman of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Samuel1 Boreman of Ipswich and Wethersfield, Connecticut." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 178:332, Fall 2024.