Randolph, THOMAS

Randolph, THOMAS, poet and dramatist, belonged to a good Sussex family, but was born at his maternal grandfather's house in Northamptonshire in 1605. He was educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge, and died in March 1635. He left a number of poems and six plays: Aristippus, or the Jovial Philosopher; The Conceited Peddler; The Jealous Lovers; The Muses' Looking-glass; Amyntas; and Hey for Honesty. See W. C. Hazlitt's edition of his works (1875).