Playwright. Born London, probably in in a house on the corner of Ironmonger Lane and Cateaton Street (now Gresham Street). Baptized on 18 April 1580 in St Lawrence Jewry. He collaborated with a number of other dramatists including Shakespeare. With William Rowley co-wrote The Changeling which is his most well-known play and still performed. From at least 1608 he lived with his wife and family in Newington Butts where he died.
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Thomas Middleton
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St Marys Newington - Middleton
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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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Edward de Vere
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Coventry Patmore
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W. B. Yeats
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Lady Frances Balfour
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Westminster School
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King Cadwaladr
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