Nicholas Rowe was born in Little Barford on 20 June 1674. He entered the legal profession but found that he was not particularly suited to the law and on his father's death he gradually gave it up to concentrate on furthering his studies and writing. In 1715 he was made Poet Laureate. Rowe died in 1718 and was buried in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.

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