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Thomas North was born in 1535 and was the second son of the Edward North, 1st Baron N.
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His translation into English of Plutarch"s Parallel Lives is notable for being a source text used by William for several of his plays. He is supposed to have been a student of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and was entered at Lincoln"s Inn in 1557. He served as captain in the year of the Armada, and was knighted about three years later.
His name is on the roll of justices of the peace for Cambridge in 1592 and again in 1597, and he received a small pension (£40 a year) from Queen Elizabeth in 1601.
He translated, in 1557, "s Reloj de Principes (commonly known as Libro áureo), a compendium of moral counsels chiefly compiled from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, under the title of Diall of Princes. North translated from a French copy of, but seems to have been well acquainted with the Spanish version.
The Lives translation formed the source from which drew the materials for his Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra. Tudor North"s Plutarch was reprinted for the Tudor (1895), with an introduction by George Wyndham.
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United Kingdom