Aelfric the Grammarian

There is then a rudimentary version of events to be imagined in which a hirsute Eldred the Terrible, vaults from his longship somewhere on the south or south-east coast of England, axe in hand, and terrorizes the local population before settling down to some degree, and taking time out to raise a family that over the succeeding centuries would spread far and wide across the Anglo-Saxon realm. Many of these putative early Eldridges have been identified from names that seem to derive from the same basic root.

First, there was Aelfric the Grammarian (c. 955 – c. 1010), an abbot, and writer often compared with Bede. He taught at Cerne Abbas in Dorset whilst writing his famous homilies and putting together what is considered to be the first vernacular Latin grammar in medieval Europe. He also issued the wise reminder that:

Bosses who cannot permit those working under them to know kindness during this life of labour should never themselves enjoy lives of luxury because they could easily be kind to their workers every day. And then they would have some kindness in their souls. God loves kindness.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86lfric_of_Eynsham