Colet, John, dean of St. Paul's, a patron of learning, a friend and scholar of Erasmus, a liberal and much persecuted man; far in advance of his time; founded and endowed St. Paul's School; wrote a number of works, chiefly theological, and “Letters to Erasmus”' (1466‒1519).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Coles, Cowper Phipps * Colet, Louise