Ascham, as'kam, Roger (1515-1568), a Yorkshire scholar. He was a graduate of Cambridge. He was renowned as a student of Greek and Latin. In 1548 he became tutor to the Princess, afterward Queen, Elizabeth, with whom he read Cicero, Livy, Sophocles, and other classical writers. Ascham traveled extensively as secretary to the English ambassador to Charles V. He wrote a famous treatise on archery, called Toxophilus. His best known work, however, is The Scolemaster, expressive of his methods of teaching Latin, and giving in a general way his conception of the proper method of education. The Scolemaster will well repay careful reading. Although he lived in an age when Latin was the language of the educated, and was himself the leading Latin scholar of his day, Ascham took pride in saying of the Toxophilus, that he had "written this Englishe matter in the Englishe for Englishemen." See ELIZABETH; ALCUIN.