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Fulke Greville

The Right Honourable
The Lord Brooke
KB PC
Fulke Greville 1st Baron Brooke.jpg
Portrait by Edmund Lodge
Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office
1614–1621
Preceded by Sir Julius Caesar
Succeeded by Sir Richard Weston
Personal details
Born 3 October 1554
Beauchamp's Court, Alcester
Died 30 September 1628
Brook House
Mother Anne Neville
Father Sir Fulke Greville
Alma mater Shrewsbury School, Jesus College, Cambridge

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, de jure 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke KB PC (/fʊlk ˈɡrɛvɪl/; 3 October 1554 – 30 September 1628), known before 1621 as Sir Fulke Greville, was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1581 and 1621, when he was raised to the peerage.

Greville was a capable administrator who served the English Crown under Elizabeth I and James I as, successively, treasurer of the navy, chancellor of the exchequer, and commissioner of the Treasury, and who for his services was in 1621 made Baron Brooke, peer of the realm. Greville was granted Warwick Castle in 1604, making numerous improvements. Greville is best known today as the biographer of Sir Philip Sidney, and for his sober poetry, which presents dark, thoughtful and distinctly Calvinist views on art, literature, beauty and other philosophical matters.

Fulke Greville, born 3 October 1554, at Beauchamp Court, near Alcester, Warwickshire, was the only son of Sir Fulke Greville (1536–1606) and Anne Neville (d.1583), the daughter of Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland. He was the grandson of Sir Fulke Greville (d. 10 November 1559) and Elizabeth Willoughby (buried 15 November 1562), eldest daughter of Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke, the only other child of the marriage was a daughter, Margaret Greville (1561–1631/2), who married Sir Richard Verney. He was educated at Shrewsbury School before enrolling at Jesus College, Cambridge in 1568.


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