Elementaire

Richard Mulcaster Schoolmaster,

Born in Carlisle 1530, died 1611.

He studied at Cambridge and Oxford and was a brilliant Greek and Oriental scholar, He became the first headmaster of Merchant Taylors School. He advocated university training for teachers, and other reforms well in advance of his time. In 1582 he published his famous The First Part of the Elementairie which included a list of 7000 words in his proposed reformed spellings. Mulcaster enjoyed a close connection with Queen Elizabeth and her court.