About Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639
Sir Henry Wotton was born on 30 March 1568 at Bocton Hall in Kent, into a family whose Protestant loyalties, landed status, and administrative connections prepared him for public life. He died on 5 December 1639 at Eton, having lived through the final decades of Elizabeth I’s reign, the long rule of James I, and the…