"from the City of London"

Thomas More male, deceased (1535): Roman Catholic, executed under the Tudors, fromtheCityofLondon, English Renaissance humanist, Old Waynflete, Catholic martyr of the Early Modern era…Execution at the Tower of London, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Church of England, Speaker of the British House of Commons, Lord Chancellor of England; Thomas More Thomas More Thomas More had an education suited to a son of a gentleman, and seemed destined for the legal career mapped out by his...

Geoffrey Chaucer male, deceased (1400): fromtheCityofLondon, buried at Westminster Abbey, author, bureaucracy, English, Civil Servant…The Canterbury Tales, Member of the pre-1707 English Parliament; Geoffrey Chaucer -- courtier, diplomat, and poet -- is arguably one of the most important figures in English literature. His philosophically...

John Milton male, deceased (1674): blind, Christian heresy, fromtheCityofLondon, Sonneteers, Old Pauline, New Latin author…Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge, Commonwealth of England, From London; John Milton (December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the English Commonwealth. Most famed...

Inigo Jones male, deceased (1652): fromtheCityofLondon, Renaissance architecture, English architecture, St Bartholomew the Less, Banqueting House at Whitehall, Queen's House…Palace of Whitehall, Smithfield, London, Greenwich, London, Earl of Arundel; Inigo Jones (July 15, 1573 - June 21, 1652) is regarded as the first significant English architect, and the first to bring Renaissance architecture...

John Donne male, deceased (1631): convert to Anglicanism, fromtheCityofLondon, Sonneteers, loyalist, Anglican priest, English…Former student of Hart Hall, Oxford, Member of the pre-1707 English Parliament; John Donne, 1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean poet and preacher, representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works, notable fo...

Thomas Gresham male, deceased (1579): Old Pauline, fromtheCityofLondon, Lord Mayor of London, tudor, Founder of English schools and colleges, Financier…Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; Sir Thomas Gresham (c. 1519 - 21 November, 1579) was an English merchant and financier who worked for King Edward VI of England and for Edward's...

Thomas Middleton male, deceased (1627): fromtheCityofLondon, Christ's Hospital Old Blue, masque, English Renaissance dramatist, pageant, tragedy…Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford; Thomas Middleton (1580 - 1627) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton stands with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson as among the most...

Alexander Pope male, deceased (1744): from Binfield, Works of Alexander Pope, fromtheCityofLondon, satirical, tennyson, shakespeare…From London; Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 - 30 May 1744) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the early eighteenth century, best known for his...

Edward Alleyn male, deceased (1626): stage actor, fromtheCityofLondon, Founder of English schools and colleges, St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate, proteus, tamburlaine…From London, Earl of Worcester, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus; Edward Alleyn (1 September 1566 - 25 November 1626) was an English actor who was a major figure of the Elizabethan theatre and founder of Dulwich...

Robert Herrick male, deceased (1674): fromtheCityofLondon, St John's College, Cambridge, charles ii, English Civil War, restoration, From London…Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Duke of Buckingham, Sons of Ben, Isle of Rhé; Robert Herrick (baptized August 24 1591- October 1674) was a 17th century English poet. Born in Cheapside, London, he was the seventh child and...

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