Sir John Beaumont, first baronet

(1584 c.-1627)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Beaumont, John, Sir, 1583-1627 DNB: Beaumont, Sir John, first baronet (c.1584-1627), poet LBT ID: JoBeaum1627 VIAF ID: 72779756 LOC ID: n83230251	B/BAP: 1584 DIED: 1627-04-19
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English poet and friend of Michael Drayton; his verse circulated in manuscript though his major poem, Bosworth Field was posthumously printed in 1629.
REFERENCES TO Sir John Beaumont, first baronet: Walter Scott to George Ellis, [November? 1805] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Sketches of the Living Poets. No. 2.—Lord Byron” in The Examiner (29 July 1821) 472-74 Found 1: ¶ 2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I 1804-05 Found 1: ¶ 22 Chapter II 1805 Chapter IV 1825 Found 1: ¶ 65