Herrick, Robert
Herrick, Robert ( 1591 – 1674 ),seventh child of Nicholas Herrick , a prosperous goldsmith who migrated to London from Leicester, and of Julian , daughter of a London mercer, William Stone , whom Nicholas married in 1582 . In Nov. 1592 , 16 months after Robert's birth, and two days after making his will, Herrick's father fell to his death from a fourth-floor window in his London house. Suicide was suspected, but being ‘moved with charity’ the queen's almoner did not confiscate the Herrick estate for the Crown, as was usual with suicides. There is no record of Robert attending school, but the family was wealthy and the classical bent of his poetry makes it likely he had a grammar-school education. In 1607 he was apprenticed to his uncle Sir William Herrick, goldsmith, a man of mark who was MP for Leicester, owned land in 13 counties, and had been knighted in 1605 . Herrick's earliest datable poem was written about...
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