COX, LEONARD (fl. 1524-72), schoolmaster and author

Second son of Laurence Cox of Monmouth by Elizabeth his wife. He graduated B.A. at Cambridge, but removed in 1528 to Oxford and was admitted to the B.A. degree of that University, 19 February 1529/30. He afterwards became headmaster of the grammar school, Reading, a post which he occupied till 1546. He later went to live at Caerleon, where he taught school. In 1572 he became headmaster of Coventry grammar school. He was learned in modern languages and had travelled extensively on the continent of Europe. He was a friend of Erasmus and Melanchthon and was himself distinguished as a rhetorician and a grammarian. In 1524 he wrote The Art and Crafte of Rhethoryke and in 1540 Commentaries upon Will. Lily's Construction of the eight parts of speech. He also translated from Greek to Latin Marcus Eremita de Lege et Spiritu and from Latin to English Erasmus's Paraphrase of the Epistle to Titus, 1549.

Author

• Walter Thomas Morgan, (1912 - 1990)

Sources

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• The Cambridge history of English literature (1908-1927), iii, 290
• introduction by G. J. Williams to Egluryn Ffraethineb sef dosbarth ar retoreg; un o'r saith gelfyddyd (Cardiff 1930) by Henri Perry, vii

Further Reading

• Wikipedia Article: Leonard Cox

Additional Links

• VIAF: 164168959
• Wikidata: Q6525197

Published date: 1959

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