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Shakespeare's restored house on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, now open to the public as Shakespeare's Birthplace. John Shakespeare (c. 1531 – 7 September 1601) was an English businessman and politician who was the father of William Shakespeare. Active in Stratford-upon-Avon, he was a glover and whittawer (leather worker) by trade.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 January 2025. The Chandos portrait, believed to be Shakespeare, held in the National Portrait Gallery, London William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised on 26 April 1564 [a] in Stratford ...
John Shakespeare's house, believed to be Shakespeare's birthplace, in Stratford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover (glove-maker) originally from Snitterfield in Warwickshire, and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affluent landowning family. [14]
The early years of Shakespeare’s life are murky. According to Biography , he was born to a father, John, who managed a portfolio as a landowner, moneylender, local official, and glover and ...
Susanna married John Hall, a respected physician, on 5 June 1607 in Holy Trinity Church.She was 24; he was about 32. Some slight evidence indicates that Shakespeare settled a substantial dowry on Susanna of 105 acres of his land in Old Stratford he had bought in 1602, probably retaining a life interest in it. [3]
Thomas Nash (baptised 20 June 1593 – died 4 April 1647) [1] was the first husband of William Shakespeare's granddaughter Elizabeth Barnard.He lived most of his life in Stratford-upon-Avon, and was the dominant male figure amongst Shakespeare's senior family line after the death of Dr. John Hall, Shakespeare's son-in-law, in 1635.
John died in 1601 and Mary died in September 1608. [ 3 ] Mary was born into a family of status and her ancestors were well connected in society, including Thomas Arden, who fought in the Second Barons' War (1264–67) on the side of Simon de Montfort ; Robert Arden who fought in the Wars of the Roses, and John Arden who served at the court of ...
As bandmate Paul McCartney would later note, The Beatles’ John Lennon’s short life was full of tragedy. Brought up in a turbulent family dynamic after his father Alfred left at an early age ...