Francis Meres

Education

He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1587 and an Master of Arts

Career

Francis Meres (1565/6 – 29 January 1647) was an English churchman and author in 1591. Two years later he was incorporated an Master of Arts of Oxford. His relative, John Meres, was high sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1596, and apparently helped him in the early part of his career.

In 1602 he became rector of Wing in Rutland, where he also ran a school. from Cambridge and became rectors.

Meres is especially well known for his Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury (1598), a commonplace book that is important as a source on the Elizabethan poets, and more particularly because it is the first critical account of the poems and early plays of William Shakespeare. Its list of Shakespeare"s plays is an important source for establishing their chronology.

A sermon entitled Gods Arithmeticke (1597), and two translations from the Spanish of Luís de Granada entitled Granada"s Devotion and the Sinners" Guide (1598) complete Meres" list of works. Meres married a wife named Mary (1576/7–1631) whose surname is unknown, by whom he had a son, Francis, born in 1607.

Achievements

• Francis Meres was a famous author, who wrote Palladis Tamia; Wits Treasury, a commonplace book valuable for information on Elizabethan poets.

Connections

Wife:

Mary Meres

Son:

Francis Meres