Richard Huloet

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Richard Huloet was a 16th-century{{Cite news|url=http://www.countryliving.com/life/travel/a38889/history-of-honeymoons/|title=This Is the Real Reason We Go on Honeymoons|last=Cepeda|first=Marlisse A.|date=2016-06-22|work=Country Living|access-date=2017-07-01|language=en}} English lexicographer. He was born at Wisbech, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire.{{cite journal|jstor=4172992|title=Richard Huloet's "Abcedarium:" A Study in English-Latin Lexicography|first=D. T.|last=Starnes|journal=Studies in Philology |date=1 January 1951|volume=48|issue=4|pages=717–737}} He was a contemporary of Peter Levens, John Withals, and John Véron.

According to some sources, Samuel Johnson and he were the first writers in the English language to use the term "honeymoon".{{Cite news|url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/54075/where-does-term-honeymoon-come|title=Where Does the Term "Honeymoon" Come From?|last=Kerley|first=DeAnna|date=2014-01-14|work=Mental Floss|access-date=2017-07-01|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.refinery29.com/2016/06/115293/honeymoon-tradition-history|title=Oh, So THIS Is Why Newlyweds Go On Honeymoons?|last=Harrison|first=Olivia|date=June 28, 2016|website=Refinery29|access-date=2017-07-01}} He was the author of the Abecedarium Anglico-Latinum (1552). The book was dedicated to Thomas Goodrich, Bishop of Ely and chancellor of England.Stein, Gabriele. 2006. Richard Huloet as a Recorder of the English Lexicon. In Selected Proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on New Approaches in English Historical Lexis (HEL-LEX), ed. R. W. McConchie et al., 24-33. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hel-lex/2005/paper1343.pdf{{cite book|title= The History of the County of Cambridge, from the Earliest Account to the Present Time|author= Edmund Carter |year= 1819|publisher= S. &. R. Bentley}}