Chapter Edwards to Elyot of E by Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

was offered, but declined, the position of Governor-General of India. He wrote a History of India (1841), and The Rise of the British Power in the East, pub. in 1887.

Elwin, Whitwell (1816-1900).—Critic and editor, son of a country gentlemen of Norfolk, studied at Cambridge, and took orders. He was an important contributor to the Quarterly Review, of which he became editor in 1853. He undertook to complete Croker’s edition of Pope, and brought out 5 vols., when he dropped it, leaving it to be finished by Mr. Courthope. As an editor he was extremely autocratic, and on all subjects had pronounced opinions, and often singular likes and dislikes.

Elyot, Sir Thomas (1490-1546).—Diplomatist, physician, and writer, held many diplomatic appointments. He wrote The Governor (1531), a treatise on education, in which he advocated gentler treatment of schoolboys, The Castle of Health (1534), a medical work, and A Defence of Good Women (1545). He also in 1538 published the first Latin and English Dictionary, and made various translations.