George Herbert

George Herbert was born in 1593 in Montgomery, Wales, into an aristocratic family; his elder brother Edward became a philosopher and diplomat. His father died when George was three, and his mother, Magdalen Herbert, a friend of the poet John Donne, raised the family. He studied at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow and in 1620 was elected public orator of the university, a post that brought him into contact with the court of King James I. He served briefly as a member of Parliament. In his thirties he turned away from a career at court, and in 1630 he was ordained a priest and became rector of the small parish of Bemerton, near Salisbury. There he served his parishioners, played music, and wrote a guide for country clergy, A Priest to the Temple. He died of tuberculosis in 1633, at the age of 39. Shortly before his death he sent his poems to his friend Nicholas Ferrar, who published them as The Temple (1633). They include The Collar, Love (III) and Easter Wings.

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Faith: Anglican priest and poet; he is commemorated in the calendars of the Church of England and the Episcopal Church. Source: Wikipedia