A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Charleton, Walter

by John William Cousin

Charleton, Walter (1619- 1707).—Miscellaneous writer ed. at Oxf., was titular physician to Charles I. He was a copious writer on theology, natural history, and antiquities, and pub. Chorea Gigantum (1663) to prove that Stonehenge was built by the Danes. He was also one of the "character" writers, and in this kind of literature wrote A Brief Discourse concerning the Different Wits of Men (1675).