biography
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| lived:
| (1568–1639)
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| biography:
| English diplomat, traveller, scholar, and poet, born in Boughton Malherbe, Kent, SE England, UK. He studied at Oxford, then travelled extensively. He became the confidant of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. On his friend's downfall (1601) he went to France, then to Italy, and was sent by Ferdinand, Duke of Florence, on a secret mission to James VI of Scotland. When James succeeded to the throne of England, Wotton was knighted, then sent as ambassador to Venice (1604). His tracts and letters were collected as Reliquiae Wottonianae (1651). One of his few surviving poems is ‘The Character of a Happy Life’. |
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