List of People Educated at Westminster School - 16th Century

16th Century

  • Nicholas Udall (1504–1556), playwright
  • Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552–1616), travel writer
  • William Alabaster (1567–1640), poet
  • Robert Bruce Cotton (1570–1631), antiquarian
  • Ben Jonson (1573–1637), poet and dramatist
  • Arthur Dee (1579–1651), physician
  • Richard Corbet (1582–1635), poet
  • Sir Richard Lane (1584–1650), Chief Baron of the Exchequer
  • Robert Herrick (1591–1674), poet
  • Charles Chauncy (1592–1672), President of Harvard 1654 – 72
  • Henry King (1592–1669), poet
  • George Herbert (1593–1633), public orator and poet

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