Background
A native of Bedfordshire, he was son of a clergyman.
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Samuel Page
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Education
He graduated Bachelor of Arts on 5 February 1591, and on 16 April in the same year became fellowship
Career
He was admitted scholar of Christ Church, Oxford, 10 June 1587, and matriculated on 1 July following, aged 13. He proceeded Master of Arts 15 March 1594, Bachelor of Divinity 12 March 1604, and Doctor of Divinity 6 June 1611. ‘In his juvenile years he was accounted,’ according to Francis Meres, ‘one of the chiefest among our English poets to bewail and bemoan the perplexities of love in his poetical and romantic writings.’
After taking holy orders, he served as a naval chaplain, and joined the expedition to Cadiz in 1595 as chaplain to the admiral, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham.
In 1597 he became vicar of Street Nicholas, Deptford or West Greenwich.
He held the living with his chaplaincy. He died at Deptford, and was buried in his church on 8 August 1630.
