Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Alexander Nevile
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POET,
Was a Kentish man, born in 1554. He was educated at Cambridge, and became secretary to Archbishops Parker and Grindal. In his sixteenth year he translated, or paraphrased, the "Œdipus" of Seneca, a version spoken of by Warton in the highest terms. He composed a Latin narrative of the Norfolk insurrection of Kett, with a Latin account of Norwich. In 1587 he published the Cambridge verses on the death of Sir Philip Sidney, and projected a translation of "Livy," which he never completed. He died in 1614, and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral.
[See "Warton's History of Poetry," "Strype's Lives of Parker and Grindal."]