GREVILLE, Sir FULKE, first Lord BROOKE (1554-1628). An English poet and courtier, born at Beauchamp Court, Warwickshire. lie entered Shrewsbury School in 1564 on the same day with Sir Philip Sidney, and an intimacy grew up which remained unbroken until Sidney's death. Though he matriculated at Jesus College, Cam bridge (1568), while Sidney went to Oxford, the two kept in constant communication, and in 1577 they went together to the Court of Queen Elizabeth, where Greville at once found great favor. Iig made several visits to the Continent, where he met many men of distinction. He saw some service in Normandy under Henry IV. about 1591, was four times a member of Par liament between 1592 to 1620; became Treas urer of the Navy in 1598, and in 1603 was con firmed for life as Secretary for Wales, to which position he had originally been appointed in 1583. On the accession of James I. Greville was made a Knight of the Bath. From 1614 to 1621 he was Chancellor of the Exchequer. Ile was made Baron Brooke in 1621, but his political activity as a peer was limited to service in the council of War in 1624 and membership in a few com mittees. lie was stabbed by an old servant, one of the witnesses of his will. to whom he had not. left a legacy, and died September
30, 1628. Of Lord Brooke's literary work little appeared during his lifetime except a few scattered poems and The Tragedie of Mustapha (1609), the text of which was subsequently al tered. The bulk of his poetical work was pub lished in 1633, a single folio containing A Treatie of Humane Learning, An Inquisition Upon Fame and Honour; and A Treatie on 1Varres, together with an improved text of The Tragedie of Mustapha; The Tragedie of Alalutn; and Ccelica, the last a collection of so-called 'son nets,' which, however, were not written in the sonnet form. His longest work, The Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney, in prose, which was as much autobiography as biography, with inter esting and original views on politics, appeared in 1652. All of his metrical writings, save his `sonnets,' were written in a close, subtle style, and his subjects were not well adapted to poetic expression; and all tendencies toward fanciful grace are lost in the philosophy and argumenta tiveness that characterize his versified tracts. His extant works, in four volumes, were reprinted in Puller Worthies Library, edited by Grosart (1870).