Ayton, Robert, Sir, 1570-1638

LC control no.	no 00026614
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Ayton, Robert, Sir, 1570-1638 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Aytoun, Robert, Sir, 1570-1638
Associated country	Scotland England
Located	London (England)
Birth date	1570
Death date	1638-02-25
Place of birth	Kinaldy (Scotland)
Place of death	London (England)
Field of activity	Poetry Courts and courtiers
Profession or occupation	Poets Courts and courtiers
Found in	Ayton : poems (1963), 1992: English poetry full-text database (Robert Ayton, 1570-1632) LC in OCLC, 04/06/00 (hdg.: Ayton, Robert, Sir, 1570-1638; usage Sir Robert Ayton) BL auth. file, 10 Apr. 2008 (hdg.: Ayton, Robert,Sir,1570-1638; ref.: Aytoun, Robert, Sir) Roger, Charles. The poems of Sir Robert Aytoun, 1884: p. xi-xiii (contents page contains titles in English and Latin) p. xxiv (he appears to have been born in the castle of Kinaldie, in 1570; studied at St Leonard's College, University of St Andrews; obtained Master of Arts degree in 1588, then studied civil law at the University of Paris) p. xxxii (died in the palace of Whitehall in London in March 1638) Oxford DNB online, 23 April 2020 (Ayton, Sir Robert (1570-1638), poet and courtier; born at the castle of Kinaldie, near St Andrews, Fife; wrote poems in Latin, Greek, French, and Scots; no Greek or French specimens have survived; earliest-known English poems, including 'Diophantus and Charidora'; was established in London and close to the court by the end of 1603 indicated by his poem 'To Queen Anne on a New Year's Day 1604'; on 26 February 1615 Ayton obtained a grant of denization which made him a naturalized English citizen; On the succession of Charles I in 1625 Ayton resumed his old post of secretary to the queen, which he retained until his death on 25 February 1638. He was buried three days later in Westminster Abbey; Only Ayton's Latin poems were published in his lifetime)
Associated language	eng lat