Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Stephen Gosson

by John Hutchinson

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Stephen Gosson,

DIVINE AND POET,

Was a Kentish man born in 1554, and educated at Oxford. He took Orders and obtained the living of Great Wigborough, in Essex, and subsequently the Rectory of St. Botolph in London, where he died in 1623. He was an imitator of his contemporaries, Spenser and Sidney, and excelled in pastoral poetry. He wrote several Plays, and a sermon entitled "The Trumpet of War."

[See "Wood's Athenæ Oxon,," by Bliss; "Gentleman's Magazine," 1795, and "Biographia Dramatica"]