Dryden, John - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Webby Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1697. The Master and Fellows, Trinity College, Cambridge. Dryden, John ( 1631–1700 ), poet, playwright, and critic, was born on 9 August 1631 at Aldwincle, Northamptonshire, the eldest of the fourteen children of Erasmus Dryden (c.1602–1654), son of Sir Erasmus Dryden (1553–1632) of Canons Ashby, and his wife, Mary ...
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