Campion, THOMAS

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 688

Campion, THOMAS (c. 1575-1620) physician, poet, and composer, was born at Witham in Essex, studied at Cambridge and abroad, and died in London. He published Latin Poemata, four Books of Ayres or songs with accompaniments, Songs of Mourning on Prince Henry's death, and several masques. See Bullen's edition of his works (1889), and E. Rhys's Selection (1896).

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