Nicholas Rowe
Nicholas Rowe was born in Little Barford, England, United Kingdom on June 20th, 1674 and is the Poet. At the age of 44, Nicholas Rowe biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
At 44 years old, Nicholas Rowe physical status not available right now. We will update Nicholas Rowe's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.
Nicholas Rowe (1674 – 6 December 1718), an English dramatist, writer, and miscellaneous writer, was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 1715.
During his lifetime, his plays and poems were well-received, with one of his translations dubbed one of the finest English poetry performances ever produced.
He was also considered the first editor of William Shakespeare's works.
Life
Nicholas Rowe was born in Little Barford, Bedfordshire, England, son of John Rowe (d. 1692), barrister and sergeant-at-law, and Elizabeth, Jasper Edwards' daughter, was born on June 20th. At Lamerton, Devonshire, his family owned a substantial estate. During King James II's reign, his father followed law and published Benlow's and Dallison's Reports.
The future Poet Laureate was educated first at Highgate School and then at Westminster School under Richard Busby's direction. Rowe became a King's Scholar in 1688, which was followed by his admission into Middle Temple in 1691. His father, who felt that Rowe had made enough progress to qualify him to study law, recommended his admission to Middle Temple. While at Middle Temple, he read statutes and reports with proficiency proportionate to the power of his mind, not as a sequence of precedents or collection of positive precepts, but rather as a system of rational government and impartial justice.
He became the king of an independent fortune after his father's death when he was nineteen. He was left to his own path, and after that time, he began to explore poetry, then writing plays.
When Rowe was Scotland's top secretary (1709-1711) to the Duke of Queensberry, he served as under-secretary (1709-1711). Rowe was made a surveyor of customs on George I's accession, and he succeeded Nahum Tate as the poet Laureate in 1715.
In 1718, he was also named clerk of the council to Prince of Wales, and Lord Chancellor Parker nominated him as clerk of the presentations in Chancery. He died on December 6th, 1718, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. In the Abbey by John Michael Rysbrack c.1722, a monument was erected to his memory.
In recognition of her husband's translation of Lucan, his widow received a pension from George I on his death. Samuel Johnson's Pharsalia translation was one of the best English poetry performances ever produced, and it was widely read, running through eight editions between 1718 and 1807.
