Shackerley Marmion, also Shakerley, Shakerly, Schackerley, Marmyon, Marmyun, or Mermion, was an early 17th-century dramatist, often classed among the Sons of Ben, the followers of Ben Jonson who continued his style of comedy.
Background
The playwright"s father, Shackerley Marmion (son of a London lawyer and member of a junior line of the Marmion Barons of Tamworth), held the manor at Aynho in Northamptonshire but was habitually in debt. In time he would pass his debts on to his son. (During his years at Oxford, his father Shackerley Marmion was forced to sell his estate an Aynho to pay his debts) Details of his life after university are unclear, though there are intimations of legal troubles, disorderly affairs, dodging creditors.
Education
After Lord Williams"s School at Thame in Oxfordshire, Marmion graduated from Wadham College, Oxford, with an Master of Arts
Career
Shakerley Jnr was baptised on 21 January 1603 in Aynho church. in July 1624. He fought in the Low Countries during this period, apparently under Sir Sigismund Alexander according to Anthony a Wood, and in 1629 was indicted for assaulting one Edward Moore with his sword and wounding the man"s head He was arrested and released on bail, but did not surrender at the next session.
Further records of the incident have not been foundation
In 1638 Marmion joined Sir John Suckling"s privately organized military incursion against the Scottish Covenanters. But he fell out along the route due to illness and returned in London, where he died the following year.