Abstract
Abstract George Puttenham (c.1528---90) was the son of Robert Puttenham and Margery Elyot, sister to Sir Thomas Elyot. Elyot dedicated to her his treatise on The Education or bringing up of children, translated oute of Plutarche (London, c.1533), urging her ‘ to folowe the intent of Plutarche in bryinginge & inducing my litle nephewes [George and Richard] into the trayne and rule of vertue, whereby they shall fynally attayne to honour ... and moste specially to the high pleasure of God, commoditye and profite of theyr countray’ . George matriculated at Christ’ s College Cambridge, in November 1546, but left Cambridge without taking a degree (not deemed necessary for gentlemen). In August 1556 he entered the Middle Temple, and spent some time in the 1560s in Flanders and at various European courts. He was well connected by birth and marriage, being related to Edward Dyer and the Earl of Oxford, with friends at court and in government circles.
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