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Henry Lyte (botanist)

1529 births1607 deaths16th-century English botanists16th-century English male writers16th-century English naturalists
16th-century English non-fiction writers16th-century English translators16th-century antiquarians17th-century English botanists17th-century antiquariansEnglish antiquariansEngvarB from July 2017People from South Somerset (district)
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Henry Lyte (1529? – 16 October 1607), also known as Henry the Elder, was an English botanist and antiquary. He is best known for two works, A niewe Herball (1578), which was a translation of the Cruydeboeck of Rembert Dodoens (Antwerp, 1564), and an antiquarian volume, The Light of Britayne: a Recorde of the honorable Originall and Antiquitie of Britaine (1588), both of which are dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I.

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