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	John Wilmot, 2nd earl of Rochester - LoveToKnow 1911
		JOHN WILMOT ROCHESTER, 2ND Earl Of (1647-1680), English poet and wit, was the son of Henry Wilmot, 1st earl.
		Wilmot was on bad terms with some of the king's friends and advisers, including Prince Rupert, and in 1644 he is reported to have said that Charles was afraid of peace and to have advised his supercession by his son, the prince of Wales.
		As a poet Rochester was a follower of Abraham Cowley and of Boileau, to both of whom he was considerably indebted.
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	Poe Forward Classical Poetry John Wilmot
		John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (April 1, 1647 – July 26, 1680) was an English nobleman, a friend of King Charles II, and the writer of much satirical and bawdy poetry.
		Rochester's life is divided between domesticity in the country and a riotous existence at Court, where he was renowned for drunkenness, vivacious conversation, and "extravagant frolics" as part of the Merry Gang (as Andrew Marvell called them) who flourished for about fifteen years after 1665.
		Rochester, as Samuel Johnson remarked, "blazed out his youth and health in lavish voluptuousness." At the age of thirty-three, as Rochester lay dying — from syphilis, it is assumed — his mother had him attended by her religious associates; a deathbed renunciation of atheism was published and promulgated as the conversion of a prodigal.
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	ROCHESTER (ENGLAND) - LoveToKnow Article on ROCHESTER (ENGLAND) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wilmot was on bad terms with some of the kings friends and advisers, including Prince Rupert, and in 1644 he is reported to have said that Charles was afraid of peace and to have advised his supercession by his son, the prince of Wales.
		After the revolution of 1688 Rochester appeared as a leader of the Tories, and he opposed the election of William and Mary as king and queen, raising his voice for the establishment of a regency on behalf of the exiled James.
		The castle was besieged by King John, by Simon de Montfort in the reign of Henry III., and in the reign of Richard II.
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	Rochester John Wilmot 2nd Earl of - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of (1647-1680), English poet and courtier.
		Lauderdale, John Maitland, 2nd Earl and 1st Duke of (1616-1682), Scottish statesman, born in Lethington.
		John Wilmot 2nd earl of Rochester (born April 1, 1647, Ditchley Manor House, Oxfordshire, Eng.
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	John Wilmot (2nd Earl of Rochester) (Pepys' Diary)
		Haas, Ealasaid A. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
		John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester (commonly referred to as Lord Rochester) was one of Charles II’s “Merry Gang” of debauched court companions.
		John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, was born April 1, 1647 and died at age 33.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
		John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (April 1, 1647–July 26, 1680) was an English libertine, a friend of King Charles II, and the writer of much satirical and bawdy poetry.
		His father Henry Wilmot, a hard-drinking Royalist from Anglo-Irish stock, had been named Earl of Rochester in 1652 for military services to Charles II during his exile under the Commonwealth; he died abroad in 1658, two years before the restoration of the monarchy in England.
		Rochester's life was divided between domesticity in the country and a riotous existence at court, where he was renowned for drunkenness, vivacious conversation, and "extravagant frolics" as part of the Merry Gang (as Andrew Marvell called them).
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	John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
		John Wilmot, the 2nd Earl of Rochester, is one of the most fascinating and notorious characters of the Restoration Age.
		The Earl of Rochester, known in his lifetime as Lord Rochester, was born at Ditchley in Oxfordshire on either 1 or 10 April 1647; the date is disputed, but being born on April Fool's Day seems quite an apt beginning in his regard.
		Lord Rochester's father, Henry Wilmot, who became the 1st Earl of Rochester in 1652, had been a Royalist supporter of Charles I and later aided the escape of Charles II and followed him into a long exile.
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	the biography of John Wilmot - life story
		JOHN WILMOT, 2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER,(1647-1680), English poet and wit, was the son of Henry Wilmot, 1st earl.
		Born at Ditchley in Oxfordshire on the 10th of April 1647, John Wilmot, ‘who succeeded his father as 2nd earl in 1658, was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, and in 1661, although he was only fourteen years of age, received the degree of MA.
		Wilmot chose to pretend that this was Dryden’s work, not Mulgrave’s, and by his orders a band of roughs set on the poet in Rose Alley, Covent Garden, and beat him.
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	Earl of Rochester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The title Earl of Rochester was created twice in the Peerage of England.
		The title was created first for Henry Wilmot, but it became extinct at the death of the third Earl, there being no male heirs remaining.
		Henry Wilmot, 2nd Viscount Wilmot (1612-1658), created Baron Wilmot in 1643, and Earl of Rochester in 1652.
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	John Wilmot (1647 - 1680)
		John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) was an English nobleman, a friend of King Charles II of England, and the writer of much satirical and bawdy poetry.
		At the age of thirty-three, as Rochester lay dying - from syphilis, it is assumed - his mother had him attended by her religious associates; a deathbed renunciation of atheism was published and promulgated as the conversion of a prodigal.
		Whether by Rochester or not (the question can't be answered), Sodom merits attention not just as an early piece of pornography but also as a disguised satire on the court of Charles II and especially of his apparent willingness to tolerate Catholicism in England at a time when that religion was officially proscribed.
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	Wilmot, John biography - S9.com
		Wilmot died on July 26, 1680 and was later buried in Spelsbury, Oxfordshire.
		John Wilmot, the notorious Earl of Rochester, was the darling of the polished, profligate court of Charles II.
		Rochester, a member of the court of Charles II of the England, had a rep as the most outre sexual deviant of his day.The drama gives us Sodom's king, Bolloxinion,...
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	John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
		JOHN WILMOT, 2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER, English poet and wit, was the son of Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl (c.1612-1658).
		He was greatly trusted by King Charles II, whose defeat at Worcester and subsequent wanderings he shared, and during this king's exile he was one of his principal advisers, being created by him earl of Rochester in 1652.
		Dryden dedicated to him his Marriage-ala-Mode (1672) in a preface full of effusive flattery, at the close of which, however, occurs a passage that may be taken to indicate that he already had misgivings.
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	2nd earl of Rochester John Wilmot â“ FREE 2nd earl of Rochester John Wilmot Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Find ...
		The most notorious debauchee of the Restoration court, Rochester was also its best poet and one of the most original and powerful English satirists.
		A Satyr Against Mankind (1675) is a scathing denunciation of rationalism and optimism that contrasts human perfidy with animal wisdom, and “History of Insipids” (1676) is a devastating attack on the government of Charles II.
		John Wilmot, the 2nd Earl of Rochester, was 17th century England's...
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	Additional Reading (from John Wilmot, 2nd earl of Rochester) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Rochester, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of, Viscount Wilmot Of Athlone, Baron Wilmot Of Adderbury
		Sir John French was born on Sept. 28, 1852, in Ripple, Kent, England.
		John Jellicoe was born on Dec. 5, 1859, in Southampton, England.
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	thePeerage.com - Person Page 2597
		She married Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich, son of Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Sandwich and Lady Anne Boyle, on 8 July 1689.
		John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester was born on 10 April 1647 at Ditchley, Oxfordshire, England.
		Charles Wilmot, 3rd Earl of Rochester was the son of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester.
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	Literature: Rochester's Second Bottle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Rochester those dramatic stylistic means, ‘exiled’ as it were to instrumental genres, are in a sense repatriated to the stage.
		The first act of Rochester closes with a theatrical innovation Kox had applied to earlier instrumen-tal works like the Third Symphony: the musicians are instructed, in the final measure of the fifth movement, to ‘stop suddenly, hold instrument without producing sound; freeze’.
		The earl is gravely ill (the final stages of syphilis) and has succeeded in once again infuriating the royal court, having erroneously sent King Charles II ‘a savage satire on himself’: a text portraying a king who ‘rolls around from whore to whore’.
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	Cordula's Web. John Wilmot
		John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647 - July 26, 1680) was an English nobleman, a friend of King Charles II of England, and the writer of much satirical and bawdy poetry.
		His father, a hard-drinking Royalist from Anglo-Irish stock, had been created Earl of Rochester in 1652 for military services to Charles II during his exile under the Commonwealth; he died abroad in 1658, two years before the restoration of monarchy in England.
		At the age of thirty-three, as Rochester lay dying from syphilis, it is assumed his mother had him attended by her religious associates; a deathbed renunciation of atheism was published and promulgated as the conversion of a prodigal.
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	John Wilmot, 2nd earl of Rochester -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		John Wilmot, 2nd earl of Rochester, detail of an oil painting attributed to J. Huysmans; in the …
		Wilmot succeeded his father to the earldom in 1658, and he received his M.A. at Oxford in 1661.
		Thomas Sackville, the 1st earl of Dorset, and an English statesman, poet, and dramatist, is remembered largely for his share in two achievements of significance in the development of Elizabethan poetry and drama: the collection Mirror for Magistrates (1563), probably the most important work between the periods of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser, and the...
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	Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of Arts, Directory (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Johnson's Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Samuel Johnson's life of John Wilmot (1647-1680) is presented by the Penn State Archive for Johnson's Life of the Poets.
		John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester A college honors thesis about the poet's satires, with some poems and some links.
		John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester to Elizabeth Barry Information about the relationship between Rochester and the actress Elizabeth Barry, including the text of a letter from him to her and quotations from his poems.
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	A Fan's Page for Johnny Depp- Libertine Press Notes
		In the 17th centurythat person was unequivocally John Wilmot, AKA the 2nd Earl of Rochester - the wily and talentedrogue who in the course of his short, wild life, become known all at once as a troublemaker, a geniusand one of history's most irrepressible believers in liberty.
		John Wilmot was born in 1647, the son of the First Earl of Rochester, into an England that was emerging from the Middle Ages and heading into a decadent first brush with modern times and morals.
		Another woman in Rochester's life is his prostitute friend Jane, who explains to Rochester that men generally have three great loves in their life: a calf's love, the one you marry and your deathbed bride.
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		Wilmot was typical of his time: a courtier in fashionable Restoration society, a skilled poet who served as a model for countless witty young rakes in Restoration comedy.
		Born in 1647 to Anne, daughter of Sir John St John of Lydiard, and Henry Wilmot, a Royalist General under Charles I, Rochester arrived at the court of Charles II at the age of 17 and quickly set the pace for the band of wits, who surrounded the king.
		A portrait of John Wilmot hangs in the dining room at Lydiard House along with other members of the St John family, who lived through the social and political upheavals of the English Civil War and Restoration period.
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	John Wilmot: Earl of Rochester
		Earl of Rochester, was the son of a general, the 1
		Wilmot served with distinction in the Royal Navy in the Second Dutch War and was given a sinecure of ‘gentleman of the bedchamber’.
		Wilmot was an accomplished poet, but he used his talents to produce work which was obscene or venomous or both.
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	John Wilmot Biography from Basic Famous People - Biographies of Celebrities and other Famous People
		Rochester was bisexual, a fact that is reflected in much of his poetry.
		Rochester's poetry was greatly influenced by John Donne's works, his metaphysical predecessor, and whilst lacking the poetic skills of his contemporaries, he more than made up for this with his sharp tongue and acerbic wit.
		A play of John Wilmots life, "The Libertine", was written by Stephen Jeffreys, in 1994, and was staged by The Royal Court Theatre.
	www.basicfamouspeople.com /index.php?aid=622 (963 words)

	Poet: John Wilmot - All poems of John Wilmot
		John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (April 1, 1647–July 26, 1680) was an English libertine, a friend of King Charles II, and the writer of much satirical and...
		John Wilmot, Baron Wilmot (1895–1964), British Labour Party MP and Minister of Supply; John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), English libertine,...
		John Wilmot second Earl of Rochester was born in Oxfordshire on 1 April 1647, and died there on 26 July 1680, notorious because - as Samuel Johnson put it...
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