William Wotton, English linguist and scholar (died 1727)

William Wotton

English theologian, classical scholar and linguist (1666–1727)

William Wotton was an English theologian, classical scholar and linguist. He is chiefly remembered for his remarkable abilities in learning languages and for his involvement in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. In Wales he is remembered as the collector and first…