Published 2020. Paperback, 108pp, 9 x 6ins
ISBN 9781848616127 [Download a sample PDF from this book here.]

Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) is most famous for his prominence as a 17th century Cavalier poet. Born in Middlesex, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge but never took a degree, leaving in 1626. His father died the same year. The elder Suckling had been a Comptroller — a financial officer — for King James I, and for that reason, upon his death, John inherited several large estates and a substantial fortune. Just eighteen at this time, he entered into a military career and was knighted three years later. Upon his return from the military, he grew quite the reputation as a party-goer and a gambler, and it is said that he invented the game of Cribbage. After a brief first attempt at writing in 1637, he re-entered the military life, forming a well-clad Cavalry to aid King Charles I in 1639 and found himself sitting in Parliament the following year. After a scandal involving the attempted rescue of the Earl of Strafford from the Tower of London, Suckling fled to France, where he was found dead a few months later. The exact cause of his death is unknown, but it is generally accepted that he died from ingesting poison either intentionally or unintentionally. While some of his work was published in 1637, the majority of his works were published posthumously in a collection titled Fragmenta Aurea .

(Biography drawn from this page.)

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