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WILLIAM FOWLER (c. 156o-1614)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 761 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:FOWLER (c. 156o-1614)  , Scottish poet, was See also:born about the See also:year 156o . He attended St Leonard's See also:college, St See also:Andrews, between 1574 and 1578, and in 1581 he was in See also:Paris studying See also:civil See also:law . In 1581 he issued a pamphlet against See also:John See also:Hamilton and other Catholics, who had, he said, driven him from his See also:country . He subsequently (about ?1590) became private secretary and See also:Master of See also:Requests to See also:Anne of See also:Denmark, wife of See also:James VI., and was renominated to these offices when the See also:queen went to See also:England . In 1609 his services were rewarded by a See also:grant of 2000 acres in See also:Ulster . His See also:sister Susannah See also:Fowler married See also:Sir John See also:Drummond, and was See also:mother of the poet See also:William Drummond of Hawthornden . On the See also:title-See also:page of The Triumphs of Petrarke, Fowler styles himself " P. of See also:Hawick," which has been held to mean that he was See also:parson of Hawick, but this is doubtful . A MS. collection of seventy-two sonnets, entitled The See also:Tarantula of Love, and a See also:translation (1587) from the See also:Italian of the Triumphs of Petrarke are preserved in the library of the university of See also:Edinburgh, in the collection bequeathed by his See also:nephew, William Drummond . Two other volumes of his See also:manuscript notes, scrolls of poems, &c., are preserved among the Drummond See also:MSS., now in the library of the Society of Antiquaries of See also:Scotland . Specimens of Fowler's verses were published in 1803 by John See also:Leyden in his Scottish Descriptive Poems . Fowler contributed a prefatory See also:sonnet to James VI.'s See also:Furies; and James, in return, commended, in See also:verse, Fowler's Triumphs .

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