Possible Clues:

• Picked up, as knowledge
• Many deserved to be erudite
• Well-educated
• Scholarly head of languages brought in
• Acquired a word defining friend from Chambers?
• Facing hooligan, King taken in
• Erudite and inclined to accept component of basic education?
• Found out; educated
• Erudite English composer in the outskirts of Leatherhead
• Scholarly study taken up following work of Shakespeare