| AdminHistory | Sir Thomas Overbury: born in Warwickshire, 1581; Queen's College Oxford, 1595; BA, 1598; entered the Middle Temple; became friends with Robert Carr and advised him in his political career, which arose from James I's favour; knighted, 1608; frustrated in his ambitions, visited the Low Countries, 1609; his opposition to Carr's (then Viscount Rochester) intention to marry the divorced Frances Howard, Countess of Essex, was resented; sent to the Tower of London, 1613; Frances Howard determined on his murder and he was gradually poisoned; a jury pronounced his death natural, 1613. Publications: 'A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T Overburye', a poem on marriage (London, 1614, and many later editions); 'Sir Thomas Overbury his Observations in his Travailes upon the state of the Seventeen Provinces in 1609' (1626 and later editions). Rochester (created Earl of Somerset) married the Countess; after nearly two years, warrants were issued for the their arrest and they were convicted, but pardoned and released in 1621. |
| CustodialHistory | Part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century. Formerly Ogden A195. |