@article {3166889, title = {Laurence Nowell, Schoolmaster of Sutton Coldfield}, journal = {Notes and Queries}, volume = {71}, year = {2024}, month = {2024}, pages = {25-29}, abstract = {Our decades-long project to disambiguate the two Laurences Nowell is substantially complete. One (c.1516{\textendash}76) was Dean of Lichfield from 1560 to his death, brother of Alexander Nowell, schoolmaster of Westminster and Dean of St Paul{\textquoteright}s. The other (c.1530{\textendash}69), of greater interest to intellectual history, was an antiquary, cartographer, and pioneer in Old English scholarship, cousin to Alexander. Some outstanding questions, however, remain. In the present note, I adduce evidence from the Vice-Principal{\textquoteright}s Register at Brasenose demonstrating that it was Laurence Nowell, not his elder brother Alexander, who left Brasenose to become a schoolmaster in 1546; and Laurence the future Dean of Lichfield, not his cousin Laurence the antiquary, who served as master of the grammar school at Sutton Coldfield from 1546 to 1550.}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjad114}, author = {Lazarus, Micha} }