John Suckling

Poet

Birthday February 10, 1609

Birth Sign Aquarius

Birthplace England

DEATH DATE Jun 1, 1642 (33)

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About

Seventeenth-century English poet who is remembered for a poem entitled "Ballad Upon a Wedding."

Before Fame

He studied at the English Court (Gray's Inn), as well as at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Trivia

He invented cribbage, a popular card game.

Family Life

He was born into a noble Middlesex family and, at age eighteen, inherited the estate of his father.

Associated With

He was born in the last years of William Shakespeare's life.