While at St. Paul ’ s between 1505 and 1519, Colet used his preaching, administration, scriptural exegesis and education towards Church reform.

It represents his work, or as Colet said himself, he is “ speaking out of zeal, a man sorrowing for the ruin of the Church ”.

Furthermore, Colet stated that he came “… here today, fathers, to admonish you with all your minds to deliberate, in this your Council, concerning the reformation of the Church ”.

Erasmus likely portrayed Colet to show that one could be highly critical of the Church while still a loyal priest.

Later critics went on view Colet as Protestant-like, though historical revisionists believe that Colet was a reform preacher that wanted to improve the quality of the Church.

In the introductory paragraph, Colet concludes by stating that his presence is due to the need for the Council to consider a Church reformation.

Colet explains that the priests should set an example for others as be a beacon of light, because if they are instead figures of darkness, the Church will be engulfed by darkness.

Colet states that: “ every corruption, all the ruin of the Church, all the scandals of the world, come from the covetousness of priests ”.

Colet was an outspoken critic of the powerful and worldly Church of his day, a friend of Erasmus and Sir Thomas More.

There are four schools in the town ; The John Hampden School, named after politician and English Civil War participant John Hampden, a community infant school with approximately 275 pupils aged 4 – 7, Wendover Church of England Junior School, a voluntary controlled junior school with approximately 360 pupils aged 7 – 11, The John Colet School, named after the Renaissance humanist John Colet, is a community secondary school with approximately 1100 pupils aged 11 – 18, Wendover House School a school for boys aged 11 – 16 who have special educational needs.

These reached their peak in the Renaissance and Wolfe particularly draws inspiration from the Renaissance humanists that supported the Catholic Church, such as Erasmus, Thomas More, Johann Reuchlin and John Colet.

In a letter addressed to me in 1888, Mr. Gladstone, whom I had asked in what sense he understood the existence of a spiritual continuity between the ancient Catholic Church and the existing Church of England, replied, In the Elizabethan interval, and before Anglicanism had a recognised existence as a form of thought, I should look for the spiritual continuity in men like Bernard Gilpin, as, before the Reformation, mainly in men like Colet.

The Colet family motto is " Semper Erectus ", Latin for " Always Upstanding ".

Around 1508, having inherited his father's wealth, Colet formed his plan for the re-foundation of St Paul's School, which he completed in 1512, and endowed with estates of an annual value of £ 122 and upwards.

In his speech, Colet condemned war and prompted Christians to fight only for Christ.

Erasmus stated that Colet was a man for the ages and a true Christian.

Together with Lilye, Erasmus, and Wolsey, Colet produced materials forming the basis of the authorized Latin Grammar, used for centuries in the English schools.

St Paul's School plaque LondonThe eldest son of Sir Henry Colet, a member of the Mercers ' Company and twice Lord Mayor of the City of London, he inherited a substantial fortune and used a great part of it for the endowment of his school, having no family of his own ; his 21 siblings all died in childhood and he was a celibate priest.

The new site also includes St Paul's Preparatory School, or Colet Court, whose pupils account for roughly one half of the senior school's intake each year.

The only building which remained from the previous Water Board landowners became the music department for Colet Court.

In 1941 Ayres was sent to Colet Court, the junior school for St Paul's, in Hammersmith, where on her eleventh birthday she finally learnt to read.

The club currently shares the school fields of the John Colet School and a clubhouse is open each Saturday afternoon for either a first or a reserve team fixture.

Upon arrival in Paris, Colet began to submit her work for approval and publication and soon won a two-thousand-franc prize from the Académie française, the first of four prizes won from the Académie.

In many others, Flaubert gives lengthy appreciations and critical comments on the poems that Louise Colet sent to him for his judgment before offering them for publication.

* Find-A-Grave profile for Louise Colet

The eldest son of Sir Henry Colet, ( Lord Mayor of London 1486 and 1495 ), he was born in London in January 1467, and was educated at St Anthony's school and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took his M. A.

In 1510 John Colet, dean of St Paul's, who was then founding the school which afterwards became famous, appointed Lily the first high master in 1512.

St Paul's School is a boys ' independent school, founded in 1509 by John Colet, located on a site in the London suburb of Barnes.

Since 1881 St Paul's has had its own preparatory school, Colet Court, and from 1887, under the direction of a new High Master, it expanded rapidly.

By the 16th century however, it had declined, and in 1509, a new school was founded by John Colet, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, on a plot of land to the north of the Cathedral.

In 1876 the company were legally established as trustees of the Colet estate and the management of the school was assigned to a Board of Governors consisting of the Master, Wardens and nine members of the company, together with three representatives each of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London.

In 2002, the school obtained its own grant of arms from the College of Arms consisting of the arms of Dean Colet surrounded by a gold bordure, upon which the crossed swords of the Dean of St Paul's are repeated.

The preparatory school, Colet Court, was soon afterwards housed in new premises in a similar style on the opposite side of the road.

He was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle on Cromwell Road in South Kensington, Colet Court preparatory school in Barnes, Westminster School, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern History in 1978.

It was bought and renovated by Stanley Garton, but the Second World War intervened, and it became the temporary home of 80 boys from Colet Court prep school, evacuated from Hammersmith.

In her twenties she married Hippolyte Colet, an academic musician, partly in order to escape provincial life and live in Paris.

Though married to Hippolyte Colet, Louise had a steamy eight-year affair, in two stages, with Gustave Flaubert.

His time in England was fruitful in the making of lifelong friendships with the leaders of English thought in the days of King Henry VIII: John Colet, Thomas More, John Fisher, Thomas Linacre and William Grocyn.

In 1499, while in England, Erasmus was particularly impressed by the Bible teaching of John Colet who pursued a style more akin to the church fathers than the Scholastics.

" I cannot tell you, dear Colet, how I hurry on, with all sails set, to holy literature.

This essay compares to John Colet ’ s Convocation Sermon, though the styles differ.

* September 10 – John Colet, English churchman and educator ( b. 1467 )

* St Paul's School is founded by John Colet, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.

* John Colet receives his M. A.

* January – John Colet, English churchman and educational pioneer ( d. 1519 )

John Colet, William Grocyn, William Lilye and other eminent scholars were his intimate friends, and he was esteemed by a still wider circle of literary correspondents in all parts of Europe.

On his return to Oxford, full of the learning and imbued with the spirit of the Italian Renaissance, he formed one of the brilliant circle of Oxford scholars, including John Colet, William Grocyn and William Latimer, who are mentioned in the letters of Erasmus.

John Colet ( January 1467 – 10 September 1519 ) was an English churchman and educational pioneer.

Colet was an English scholar, Renaissance humanist, theologian, and Dean of St. Paul ’ s Cathedral, London.

Colet wanted people to see the scripture as their guide through life.

Colet is an important early leader of Christian humanism as he linked humanism and reform.

Colet influenced Erasmus, a key figure in Christian humanism.

His methods did much to influence Erasmus, who visited Oxford in 1498, and who later received an annuity from Colet.

Since 1494, Colet had been prebendary of York, and canon of St Martin le Grand, London.