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Born c.1568
Died February 18, 1645 • London • England
Notable Works “A Chronicle of the Kings of England”
Subjects Of Study history of United Kingdom • king
Nicholas Udall
English writer
Sidney Godolphin
English poet
William Painter
English author
Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet
English poet and translator
George Sandys, engraving after a portrait by Cornelius Janssen; frontispiece to Relation of a Journey (1615)
George Sandys
English poet and traveler
Thomas May
English scholar
Jasper Heywood
English priest and poet
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
Edmund Gosse, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1886; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Edmund Gosse
British critic and writer
Terence Tiller
British writer
Gawin Douglas
Scottish bishop and poet
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
William Caxton
William Caxton
English printer, translator, and publisher
William Camden, oil painting by or after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Camden
British historian
Anthony Munday
English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator
Harriet Martineau, detail of an engraving
Harriet Martineau
British author
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton
British historian
George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer
George Chapman
English writer

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