(Dr Walter), a great reformer of the learned languages in England, was born in 1516. He distinguished himself particularly by writing Latin in a fine style, which he acquired by a constant study of Cicero. He was a strenuous promoter of the reformation under king Edward; and was therefore thought a proper person to succeed bishop Gardiner in the mastership of Trinity-hall, Cambridge, on his deprivation. He lay concealed during the reign of queen Mary; but acquired the favour of Elizabeth, who constituted him one of the masters of the court of requests, and sent him one of the three agents to Bruges in 1566, to restore commerce between England and the Netherlands. He was also engaged with Sir John Cheke in drawing up in Latin that useful code of ecclesiastical law, published in 1571 by the learned John Fox, under the title of Reformatio legum ecclesiasticarum; his other works are collected and published under the title of Lucubrations. He died in 1572.