Walter Charleton

He received his early education from his father, and when sixteen entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford, under the tuition of John Wilkins.

A royalist, he was appointed physician to the exiled king Charles II but remained in London writing, in Russell Street, Covent Garden.

[3] He was a copious writer also on theology, natural history, and antiquities, and published Chorea Gigantum (1663) to prove that Stonehenge was built by the Danes.

The only argument is that similar stone works exist in Denmark, a fact supplied to Charleton by the Danish antiquary, Wormius, with whom he had corresponded on the book of Inigo Jones in which Stonehenge is said to be a Roman temple.

The Chorea Gigantum had a poem by John Dryden written in its praise, the Epistle to Dr. Charleton, prefixed to the presentation copy given to the king.