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Edmund Bolton

English author and historian
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Bolton also spelled:
Boulton
Born:
1575?
Died:
1633?

Edmund Bolton (born 1575?—died 1633?) was an English historian, antiquarian, and poet whose lyrics are among the best in the miscellany Englands Helicon (1600), a widely known anthology of late 16th-century lyric and pastoral poetry. Bolton was educated at Cambridge and the Inner Temple, London. He obtained a minor position at court but was debarred from public office because of his Roman Catholicism, and he tried to support himself by writing. A friend of William Camden and other scholars, he petitioned James I to form a royal academy, but the king died before giving formal sanction. His plans to write ...(100 of 142 words)

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