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Sir Thomas Elyot was (and remains) Carlton's most famous resident.
High resolution versions of the above portraits of Thomas Eliott and Lady Margaret Eliot by the artist Holbein are available from the Web Gallery of Art - they are recommended viewing as the artist is exceptional, even though these are chalk sketches. These were created in 1532-1533, and the originals are in the Royal collection at Windsor.
Sir Thomas Elyot was an author, reluctant diplomat, and Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire. He compiled the first Latin-English dictionary in 1538. Although he was probably not born in Carlton he moved to Carlton in 1530 when he was around 40 to concentrate on his writing, and when he died here in 1546 he was buried in a tomb in the Church.
One of his books, "The Boke named The Governour", is readable free online here - you will need to read the associated glossary though!
It appears that he spent much of his life trying unsuccessfully
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- English diplomatist and scholar.
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- Thomas Stapleton lists Elyot and his wife among More’s ‘friends and companions in the pursuit of polite literature’, and Elyot had to appeal to Cromwell, probably in 1536, to ‘lay apart the remembrance of the amity between me and Sir Thomas More’.