Surname: Udall Forename(s): Nicholas b. 1504. d. 1556. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, schoolmaster, translator, and playwright. Born in Holy Rood, Southampton. Educated
at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a fellow from 1526-1529. Moved to London
in 1533. Became headmaster of Eton College in 1534 and was imprisoned later that year
for a robbery committed by his students. Became a scholar under the patronage of Queen
Katherine in 1543. Translator of The Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the New Testament and A Discource or Traictise of Petur Martyr (1550). Author of several plays including the comedy Ralph Roister Doister (1556). Biographical information: ODNB. (CC)