1552 - 1618

Born Devonshire, England.

Attended Oxford but dropped out in order to fight for the Huguenot cause in France.

Later he returned to England and studied law.

Through friends he came to the attention of Queen Elizabeth.

He was knighted, given a number of lucrative commercial monopolies, made a member of Parliament, named captain of the Yeoman of the Guard.

He was briefly imprisoned in the Tower of London for offending the Queen.

Later, he was again imprisoned in the Tower.

James I ordered him executed.

His most famous poems include an 'Epitaph of Sir Philip Sidney', 'Even Such is Time' and the sonnets 'Methought I Saw the Grave Where Laura Lay' which prefaced Spenser's Faerie Queene, and 'Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son'.



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