Robert Dallington

Sir Robert Dallington (1561–1637) was an English courtier, travel writer and translator. In his final years, he was master of the London Charterhouse, a charitable foundation which ran a school and an almshouse.

Life Dallington was born at Geddington, Northamptonshire. He entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and was there from about 1575 to 1580; from his incorporation at Oxford as M.A. it is deduced that he held that degree from Cambridge, though this is unrecorded. Dallington then became a schoolmaster in Norfolk. The Puritan Norfolk family of Butts acted as patrons at this period of his life.

In 1594, he contributed a gratulatory poem to Lewes Lewkenor's The Resolved Gentleman. After a few years, Dallington set out on a leisurely journey through France and Italy: a Grand Tour, and in fact the first of two, one in 1595 to 1597, followed by another in 1598 to 1600. On his return he became secretary to Francis Manners; The first tour was with Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland, elder brother of Francis.

In addition to the works mentioned above, Dallington published in 1613 a book with a title relating to the Italian historian Guicciardini, Aphorismes Civill and Militarie, amplified with authorities, and exemplified with historie out of the first Quaterne of F. Guicciardine (a briefe inference upon Guicciardine's digression, in the fourth part of the first Quaterne of his Historie, forbidden the impression and effaced out of the originall by the Inquisition). A second edition of this book contained a translation of the inhibited digression.