Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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The Right Honourable The Lord Brooke KB PC |
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Portrait by Edmund Lodge
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| Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
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In office 1614–1621 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Julius Caesar |
| Succeeded by | Sir Richard Weston |
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| 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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