Waller, Edmund (M)

Surname: Waller
Forename(s): Edmund
b. 3 March 1606. d. 21 October 1687. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet and politician. Educated at King’s College, Cambridge, and Lincoln’s Inn. Married twice, Anne Banks in 1631 and Mary Bressy in 1644. MP for Ilchester, Chipping Wycombe, and Amersham (1624-1629), and then in the Short and Long Parliaments in 1640. Imprisoned (1643) and exiled (1644) for his role as a key instigator of “Waller’s plot,” an attempt to forcibly take the city of London for Charles I. Returned to England in 1652. Author of poems celebrating both Cromwell in Panegyrick to my Lord Protector (1655) and Charles II in To the King, upon his Majesties Happy Return (1660). MP for Hastings (1661-1685). Biographical information: ODNB. (CC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 4
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
On A Girdle 1861-12-14 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 6622
On a Girdle 1893-12 The English Illustrated Magazine Poet 19468
To a Lady. Singing a Song of His Composing 1894-11 The English Illustrated Magazine Poet 19506
On a Brede of Divers Colours Woven by Four Ladies 1895-05 The English Illustrated Magazine Poet 19529