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4 unusual facts about John Harington


Giacomo Castelvetro

He dedicated the work to Lucy, Countess of Bedford on the request of her brother John Harington and on the hope of acquiring future patronage but was unfortunate in this enterprise.

John Harington, 2nd Baron Harington of Exton

He was the surviving son of Sir John Harington (later created Baron Harington of Exton in 1603) and his wife, Anne Keilway, daughter of Robert Keilway, Surveyor of the Court of Wards and Liveries, and was born at Combe Abbey, near Coventry, Warwickshire, in April 1592.

After the farthings proved unpopular, the young Lord Harington of Exton died at Kew on February 27, 1614, and was buried at Exton.

Two sermons were published on his death, one preached at the funeral by Richard Stock, pastor of All Hallows, Bread Street, entitled "The Church's Lament for the Loss of the Godly", London, 1614, with a small woodprint portrait.


1607 in poetry

Sir John Harington, translator (from the Latin of Johannes de Mediolano's Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum), The Englishmans Doctor; or, The Schole of Salerne

Robert Tofte

Though no student of law, Tofte kept his lodgings in Holborn near London's Inns of Court, societies that included Edmund Spenser, John Harington, and John Marston as members.


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