Greville, SIR FULKE

Greville, SIR FULKE, poet and friend of much greater poets than himself, was born of a good Warwickshire family in 1554. He studied at Cambridge, travelled abroad, made a figure at court, was knighted in 1597, and created Lord Brooke in 1620. He was murdered in an altercation with his serving-man, 30th September 1628. Several didactic poems, more than a hundred sonnets, and two tragedies were printed in 1633; his Life of Sir Philip Sidney in 1652. Grosart edited his works (4 vols. 1870), and published a selection (The Friend of Sir Philip Sidney) in 1895.