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27 apr 2018 · OVERBURY, SIR THOMAS (1581–1613), English poet and essayist, and the victim of one of the most sensational crimes in English history, was the son of Nicholas Overbury, of Bourton-on-the-Hill, and was born in 1581 at Compton Scorpion, near Ilmington, in Warwickshire. In the autumn of 1595 he became a gentleman commoner of Queen’s College ...
Sir Thomas Overbury, prisoned, poysoned, buried the XVth. Sept." This entry could not have been made before 1615, as the word "poysoned" shows. Though the Guide, and a (modern) tablet in the Chapel both declare that Overbury was buried in the Tower, there are sufficient grounds for questioning their statement.
Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613: Sir Thomas Overbury his observations in his travailes upon the state of the Xvii. Provinces as they stood anno Dom. 1609 (London : Printed by T. Maxey for Richard Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in S. Dunstan's Church-yard, Fleetstreet, 1651 [i.e. 1650]), also by Simon van de Pass (HTML at EEBO TCP ...
Thomas Overbury was born about 1485, in Mickleton, Gloucestershire, England as the son of Nicholas Overbury and X. He married Jane Porter in 1516, in England. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died in September 1544, in Edge, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 60, and was buried in Mickleton ...
The courtier and poet Sir Thomas Overbury died in September 1613, a prisoner in the Tower of London. His death was widely noted but little lamented at the time (see Section F), and was typically attributed to natural causes, though opinion as to the exact cause varied
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Thomas Overbury (Warwickshire, 1581 – Londra, 15 settembre 1613) poeta e saggista inglese fu ucciso per essersi opposto al matrimonio dell'amico Robert Carr, I conte di Somerset con Frances Carr, Contessa di Somerset.
