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Robert Herrick - LoveToKnow 1911 (929 words) |
 | ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674), English poet, was born at Cheapside, London, and baptized on the 24th of August 1591. |
| Herrick never married, but lived at the vicarage surrounded by a happy family of pets, and tended by an excellent old servant named Prudence Baldwin. |
| A monument was erected to his memory in the parish church in 1857, by Mr Perry Herrick, a descendant of a collateral branch of the family. |
| The Life of Robert Herrick (1591-1674) (576 words) |
| Robert Herrick was born in Cheapside, London, in 1591, the seventh child of Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith. |
| On April 24, 1623 Herrick was ordained an Episcopal minister and acted as chaplain to Buckingham on the expedition to the Île de Ré. |
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