While primarily remembered today for his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses because of its influence on William Shakespeare's works, in his own time he was most famous for his translation of Caesar's Commentaries, and his translations of the sermons of John Calvin were important in spreading the doctrines of the Protestant Reformation.
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Another sister Dorothy married Edmund Docwra and was mother of the soldier and statesman Henry Docwra, 1st Baron Docwra of Culmore.
He was born at the Chamberhouse, Crookham, near Thatcham in Berkshire, son of Edmund Docwra and his wife Dorothy Golding, sister of the translator Arthur Golding.
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