Name Henry Peacham Role Author | Children Henry Peacham | |
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Died 1634, Leverton, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom Books The compleat gentleman, The garden of eloquence (1593) | ||
Henry Peacham (1546–1634), sometimes called Henry Peacham the Elder, was an English curate, best known for his treatise on rhetoric entitled The Garden of Eloquence, first published in 1577. He lived at Leverton-in-Holland, in Lincolnshire, and was the father of Henry Peacham the Younger, who also became an author.
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