Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sampson Lennard

by John Hutchinson

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Sampson Lennard,

ANTIQUARY,

Was cousin-german of Samson Lennard, of Chevening, who married Margaret, Baroness Dacre, of whom honourable mention is made by Camden. In his early life he followed the profession of arms, and was attached to Sir Philip Sidney, with whom he fought at the battle of Zutphen. He was afterwards distinguished as a man of letters, and published various translations from the Latin and French, particularly "Perrin's History of the Waldenses." He was also of some note as a topographer, and of considerable eminence as a herald, some of his heraldic compilations being amongst the manuscripts at the British Museum. He died in the year 1633, and was buried at St. Bennet's, Paul's Wharf.

[See "Moreri's Dictionary."]