FOWLER, WILLIAM (c. 1560-1614), Scottish poet, at tended St. Leonard's college, St. Andrews, between 1574 and 1578, and in 1581 was in Paris studying civil law. In that year he issued a pamphlet against John Hamilton and other Catholics, who had, he said, driven him from his country. He subsequently (about 1590) became private secretary and Master of Requests to Anne of Denmark, wife of James VI., and was renominated to these offices when the queen went to England. In 1609 his services were rewarded by a grant of 2,000 acres in Ulster. His sister Susannah was mother of the poet William Drummond of Hawthornden. A ms. collection of 72 sonnets, entitled The Ta rantula of Love, and a translation (1 587) from the Italian of the Triumphs of Petrarke are preserved in the library of the Univer sity of Edinburgh, in the collection bequeathed by his nephew, William Drummond. Two other volumes of his manuscripts are preserved among the Drummond mss., now in the library of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Specimens of Fowler's verses were published in 1803 by John Leyden in his Scottish Descriptive Poems. Fowler contributed a prefatory sonnet to James VI.'s Furies; and James, in return, commended, in verse, Fowler's Triumphs.