Wotton began his scholarly career as the translator of Louis Dupin ’ s A new history of ecclesiastical writers, ( 13 vols.

Deeply in debt, the Grenvilles began to look for ways to maximise profits from their remaining farmland around Wotton, and to seek business opportunities in the emerging fields of heavy industry and engineering.

The London and North Western Railway immediately began to operate a dedicated service from Quainton Road, with three vans per week of milk collected from the Wotton estate shipped to their London terminus at Broad Street.

Edward Wotton ( 1492 – 5 October 1555 ) was an English physician, born in Oxford, credited with starting the modern study of zoology, by separating out much of the fanciful and folkloric additions that had been added over time to the body of zoological knowledge.

Orcharding, which was increased at Innsworth in the mid 19th century, remained an important feature and in 1896 covered at least 172 a. in the parishes of Gloucester, Longford, Tuffley, Twigworth, and Wotton St. Mary ( Without ).

In 1697, William Wotton, about to bring out a second edition of his Ancient and Modern Learning, asked Bentley to write out a paper exposing the spuriousness of the Epistles of Phalaris, long a subject of academic controversy.

At the same time, the Tale revived the Quarrel of Ancients and Moderns at least enough to prompt Wotton to come out with a new edition of his pamphlet attacking Temple, and he appended to it an essay against the author of A Tale of a Tub.

The editor of the 1606 edition of The Plowman's Tale, possibly Anthony Wotton, explains his speculations with this gloss: " A Creede: Some thinke hee means the questions of Jack-vpland, or perhaps Pierce Ploughmans Creede.

Antiquarian interest in the laws continued, and in 1730 a translation by William Wotton was published.

Wotton shares authorship of the quote " Well building hath three conditions: firmness, commodity, and delight ," with Vitruvius, from whose de Architectura Wotton translated the phrase ; some have termed his Elements a paraphrase rather than a true translation, and the quote is often attributed to Vitruvius.

All these subjects were endeared to the biographer by a certain gentleness of disposition and cheerful piety ; three of them at least — Donne, Wotton and Herbert — were anglers.

George Grenville was born at Wotton House on 15 October 1712.

Wotton wrote a History of Rome in ( 1701 ) at the request of Bishop Burnet, which was later used by the historian Edward Gibbon.

In May 1714, Wotton was forced to abandon his rectory at Milton Keynes in order to avoid his creditors, and for seven years he lived at Carmarthen in south-west Wales under the assumed name of Dr. William Edwards.

Whilst at Carmarthen, Wotton reformed his character and returned to his studies.

Both are buried in the Evelyn Chapel in St John's Church at Wotton.

He died on July 19, 1742 and was buried at Wotton, near Henley on Arden.

He was violently attacked by Humphrey Hody and later by William Wotton for putting forward a pseudo-translation but Henry Herbert Stephen Croft ( 1842 – 1923 ) later discovered that there was a Neapolitan gentleman at that time bearing the name of Poderico, or, Latinized, Pudericus, with whom Elyot may well have been acquainted.

The eldest son of Richard Grenville ( 1678 – 1727 ) of Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire and of Hester, later Countess Temple, he was educated at Eton College, and in 1734 was returned to Parliament as member for the borough of Buckingham.

The son of Thomas Wotton ( 1521 – 1587 ), brother of Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton, and grandnephew of the diplomat Nicholas Wotton, he was born at Bocton Hall in the parish of Bocton or Boughton Malherbe, Kent.

Wotton was not, like his unfortunate fellow-secretary, Henry Cuffe, who was hanged at Tyburn in 1601, directly involved in Essex's downfall, but he thought it prudent to leave England, and within sixteen hours of his patron's apprehension he was safe in France, whence he travelled to Venice and Rome.

In 1602 he was living at Florence, and a plot to murder James VI of Scotland having come to the ears of the grand-duke of Tuscany, Wotton was entrusted with letters to warn the king of the danger, and with Italian antidotes against poison.

James knighted him, and offered him the embassy at Madrid or Paris ; but Wotton, knowing that both these offices involved ruinous expense, desired rather to represent James at Venice.

Wotton spent most of the next twenty years, with two breaks ( 1612 – 1616 and 1619 – 1621 ), at Venice.

Wotton had offended the scholar Caspar Schoppe, who had been a fellow student at Altdorf.

Wotton was at the time on leave in England, and made two formal defences of himself, one a personal attack on his accuser addressed to Marcus Welser of Strassburg, and the other privately to the king.

In 1607 he was appointed chaplain to Sir Henry Wotton, then English ambassador at Venice, where he remained for four years, acquiring a great reputation as a scholar and theologian.

He died at his residence, Stowe in Buckinghamshire, and was buried at Wotton whence his ancestors had hailed.

Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view.

* Lord Henry " Harry " Wotton – an imperious and decadent dandy who is a friend to Basil initially, but later becomes more intrigued with Dorian's beauty.

His father's friend, Sir Henry Wotton, was then the provost of the college.

In October 1610 he came to England in the suite of the ambassador, Lord Wotton of Marley ( brother of Casaubon's early friend Henry Wotton ), an official invitation having been sent him by Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Country homes for the landed gentry included: new rooms and remodelling of Wimpole Hall and garden buildings, ( 1790 – 94 ) for his friend Philip Yorke that he met on his Grand Tour ; remodelling of Baronscourt, County Tyrone, Ireland ( 1791 ); Tyringham Hall ( 1792 – 1820 ); the remodelling of Aynhoe Park ( 1798 ); In 1804 Soane remodelled Ramsey Abbey none of his work there now survives ; the remodelling of the south front of Port Eliot and new interiors ( 1804 – 06 ); the Gothic Library at Stowe House ( 1805 – 06 ); Moggerhanger House ( 1791 – 1809 ); for Marden Hill, Hertfordshire, Soane designed a new porch and entrance hall ( 1818 ); remodelling of Wotton House after damage by fire ( 1820 ); a terrace of six houses above shops in Regent Street London, ( 1820 – 21 ) demolished ; Pell Wall Hall ( 1822 ).

* 1666 – William Wotton, English scholar ( d. 1727 )

The Scythian theory was further developed by Andreas Jäger ( 1686 ) and William Wotton ( 1713 ), who made first forays to reconstruct this primitive common language.

The novel begins on a beautiful summer day with Lord Henry Wotton, a strongly-opinionated man, observing the sensitive artist Basil Hallward painting the portrait of a handsome young man named Dorian Gray, who is Basil's ultimate muse.

* Victoria, Lady Wotton – Lord Henry's wife, who only appears once in the novel.

When Dorian is telling Lord Henry Wotton about his new ' love ', Sibyl Vane, he refers to all of the Shakespearean plays she has been in, referring to her as the heroine of each play.

** Edward Wotton, English physician and zoologist ( d. 1555 )

** Henry Wotton, English author and diplomat ( d. 1639 )

* October 5 – Edward Wotton, English zoologist ( b. 1492 )

* August 13 – William Wotton, English scholar ( d. 1727 )

Some of the most often-quoted characterisations of Leicester, such as that he " was wont to put up all his passions in his pocket ", his nickname of " the Gypsy ", and Elizabeth's " I will have here but one mistress and no master "- reprimand to him, were contributed by Sir Henry Wotton and Sir Robert Naunton almost half a century after the Earl's death.

The Oppidan Houses are named Godolphin House, Jourdelay's, ( both built as such c. 1720 ), Hawtrey House, Durnford House, ( the first two built as such by the Provost and Fellows, 1845, when the school was increasing in numbers and needed more centralised control ), The Hopgarden, South Lawn, Waynflete, Evans ', Keate House, Warre House, Villiers House, Common Lane House, Penn House, Walpole House, Cotton Hall, Wotton House, Holland House, Mustians, Angelo's, Manor House, Farrer House, Baldwin's Bec, The Timbralls, and Westbury.

A strong Puritan, Kingscot had Hale taught by a Mr. Stanton, the vicar of Wotton known as the " scandalous vicar " due to his extremist puritan views.

He moved to Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, a minor seat of Richard Grenville, Lord Cobham.

Gessner was posthumously partly responsible for Insectorum, sive, Minimorum animalium theatrum or Theatre of Insects, written jointly by him with Edward Wotton, Thomas Muffet and Thomas Penny.

The full title of Walton's book of short biographies is, Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, & C. His leisurely labours as a biographer seem to have grown out of his devotion to angling.

It was probably as an angler that he made the acquaintance of Sir Henry Wotton, but it is clear that Walton had more than a love of fishing and a humorous temper to recommend him to the friendship of the accomplished ambassador.

At any rate, Wotton, who had intended to write the life of John Donne, and had already corresponded with Walton on the subject, left the task to him.

Sir Henry Wotton dying in 1639, Walton undertook his life also ; it was finished in 1642 and published in 1651.