Robert Southwell (priest)
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Robert Southwell, SJ, also Saint Robert Southwell, was an English Catholic priest of the Jesuit Order. He was also an author of Christian poetry in Elizabethan English, and a clandestine missionary in
Line engraving by Matthaus Greuter (Greuther) or Paul Maupin, published 1608.
Frontispiece of Saint Peter's complaint
Richard Southwell (courtier)
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Sir Richard Southwell PC was an English Privy Councillor.
Robert Southwell (priest)
…wife, Bridget, daughter of Sir Roger Copley of Roughway, Sussex. The hymnodist's maternal grandmother was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Shelley; Sir Richard Southwell was his paternal grandfather, but his father was born out of wedlock. In 1576, he was sent to the English college at Douai, boarding there but studying…
Portrait of Sir Richard Southwell by Hans Holbein the Younger