A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Lumley, (Joanna)

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LUMLEY (JOANNA), eldest Daughter and Coheiress of Henry Fitz-Allen, Earl of Arundel, and first Wife of John, Lord Lumley, by whom she had three Sons, who died Infants.

She translated from the original Greek into Latin that oration of Isocrates entitled Archidamus; the second and third orations of Isocrates to Nicocles, which she dedicated to her father; and likewise turned into Latin an oration of the same author in praise of peace, entitled Evagoras, dedicated likewise to her father. The manuscripts of these are in the Royal Library at Westminster, as also a translation of the Iphigenia of Euripides into English. The argument of the play begins with these words: "After that the captain of the Grecians."

No more of this learned lady's writings are known, nor when she died; but when her father wrote his will, which is dated 1579, she was then dead, and lies buried in the church of Cheam, in Surry, on the south side of which is her tomb.

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