Giles Fletcher 1588?-1623
Giles Fletcher (also known as Giles Fletcher the Younger) was born in London, the son of Giles Fletcher the Elder, the ambassador to Russia under Queen Elizabeth I, the brother of the poet, Phineas Fletcher and the cousin of the dramatist, John Fletcher, who collaborated with Francis Beaumont on the writing of plays.
He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He remained at Cambridge after being ordained to become Reader in Greek Grammar in 1615 and Reader in Greek Language in 1618. The following year he left to become rector of Alderton in Suffolk where he died in 1623. His principal work was the allegorical poem Christ’s Victorie and Triumph, in Heaven, in Earth, over, and after Death, written in four cantos in Spenserian stanza.