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Coles, Elisha.

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son of John Coles, schoolmaster at Wolverhampton grammar school, and Joyce Coles; upon leaving Oxford started teaching "[s]hortly afterwards";	Life, Page, 2004

Start	end	description
1640		Elisha Coles born
1658		Coles enters Magdalen College, Oxford
1659 March		Coles matriculates from Magdalen College, Oxford
1661		Coles leaves Magdalen College, Oxford
1663		Coles working as a teacher in London
1674		Coles' treatise on shorthand
1674		Coles teaching in Russell Street
1674		Coles' "The Compleat English Schoolmaster"
1675		Coles' "Nolens volens"
1675		Coles' "Syncrisis"
1676		Elisha Coles' 'An English dictionary'
1677 August		Coles an usher at Merchant Taylors'
1677		Coles' Latin dictionary
1678		Coles master of school in Galway
1678 February		Coles granted exclusive rights to print his dictionary
1678 February		Coles applies for mastership of Wolverhampton Grammar
1680 December		Death of Coles