Sir John Beaumont

Sir John Beaumont, elder brother of the celebrated dramatist Francis Beaumont, was born in 1582 and educated at Oxford. He was created a baronet by King Charles I in 1626 and died in 1628.

Beaumont wrote extensive sacred and narrative poetry, including Bosworth Field and Other Poems (1629) and an eight-book manuscript poem titled The Crown of Thorns. His religious verse was republished in Alexander Grosart's Fuller Worthies Library, and several of his poems have been adapted for devotional collections.