Background
He was born at Dittisham in Devon, England in 1579. He was the fourth son of Sir Anthony Rous of Halton, St. Dominick, Cornwall, by his first wife, Elizabeth Southcote, daughter of Thomas Southcote. John Pym was his stepbrother.
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He was born at Dittisham in Devon, England in 1579. He was the fourth son of Sir Anthony Rous of Halton, St. Dominick, Cornwall, by his first wife, Elizabeth Southcote, daughter of Thomas Southcote. John Pym was his stepbrother.
He was educated at Oxford and at Leiden, graduating at the former in January 1596-97, and at the latter thirteen months afterwards.
For some years he lived in seclusion in Cornwall and occupied himself with theological studies, producing imong other books The Arte of Happines (1619) and Testis Veritatis, a reply to Richard Montagu's Appello Caesarem. He entered parliament in 1625 as member for Truro, and continued to represent that or some neighbouring west country constituency in such parliaments as were summoned till his death. He obtained many offices under the Commonwealth, among them that of provost of Eton College. In 1657 he was made a lord of parliament.
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At first a Presbyterian, he afterwards joined the Independents.
By his wife Philipa (born 1575, died 20 December 1657, and buried in Acton church), Rous had a son Francis Rous (the younger) who was known as a writer.