William Wyatt (scholar)
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William Wyatt (1616 – 9 September 1685), was a scholar and friend of the cleric Jeremy Taylor.
Wyatt, son of William Wyat or Wyatt of ‘plebeian’ origin, was born at Todenham, near Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucestershire, in 1616. He died in Nuneaton in the house of Sir Richard Newdigate on 9 Sept. 1685
Education and relationship with Jeremy Taylor
Wyatt matriculated from St John's College, Oxford, on 16 March 1637–8, but was prevented by the outbreak of the civil war from taking his degree in arts. His diligence as a scholar appears to have been noted by Jeremy Taylor while at Oxford in 1642, and at the close of 1644 he joined Taylor in Wales as an assistant teacher at his school, called Newton Hall (Collegium Newtoniense), in the parish of Llanfihangel-Aberbythych, Carmarthenshire. He seems to have spent a portion of his time with Taylor's family at Golden Grove.
