| See biography, indexes. English humanist and physician. Linacre was more of a scholar than a scientific investigator. He took no part in political or theological questions, but his career as a scholar was characteristic of the critical period in the history of learning through which he lived.
One of the first Englishmen to study Greek in Italy, and brought back to his native country and his own university the lessons of the "New Learning." His teachers were some of the greatest scholars of the day. Among his pupils was one—Erasmus—whose name alone would 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. — Excerpted from Thomas Linacre on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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