Editing Richard Lovelace (poet) (section)

==Biography==

===Early life and family===
Richard Lovelace was born on 9 December 1617.<ref name=ODNB>{{cite ODNB|first=Raymond A.|last=Anselment|title=Lovelace, Richard (1617–1657)|year=2004|edition=Online|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17056|access-date=16 October 2014|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/17056}} </ref> His exact birthplace is unknown, and may have been [[Woolwich]], Kent, or [[Holland]].<ref name="weidhorn">Weidhorn, Manfred. Richard Lovelace. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1970</ref> He was the oldest son of Sir William Lovelace and Anne Barne Lovelace. He had four brothers and three sisters. His father was from a distinguished military and legal family; the Lovelace family owned a considerable amount of property in Kent.

His father, Sir William Lovelace, was a member of the Virginia Company and an incorporator in the second [[Virginia Company]] in 1609. He was a soldier and died during the war with Spain and the Dutch Republic in the [[Siege of Groenlo (1627)]] a few days before the town fell. Richard was nine years old when his father died.<ref name="DLB"/><ref>Letters from Constantijn Huygens. Letter 3816. London, October 1644.</ref>

Lovelace's father was the son of Sir William Lovelace and Elizabeth Aucher, who was the daughter of Mabel Wroths and Edward Aucher, who inherited, under his father's will, the manors of [[Bishopsbourne]] and Hautsborne. Elizabeth's nephew was Sir [[Anthony Aucher]] (1614 – 31 May 1692) an English politician and Cavalier during the [[English Civil War]]. He was the son of her brother Sir Anthony Aucher and his wife Hester Collett.

Lovelace's mother, Anne Barne (1587–1633), was the daughter of Sir William Barne and the granddaughter of Sir [[George Barne III]] (1532–1593), the [[Lord Mayor of London]] and a prominent merchant and public official from London during the reign of [[Elizabeth I]] and Anne Gerrard, daughter of Sir [[William Garrard]], who was Lord Mayor of London in 1555.

Lovelace's maternal grandmother was Anne Sandys.<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=The Virginia Magazine of History and biography|author=Virginia Historical Society|date=1921|volume=29|publisher=Virginia Historical Society.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6tQRAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA227|pages=1–227|access-date=25 August 2015}}</ref> His great-grandmother was Cicely Wilford and his great-grandfather [[Most Reverend]] Dr [[Edwin Sandys (archbishop)|Edwin Sandys]], an [[Anglican]] church leader who successively held the posts of [[Bishop of Worcester]] (1559–1570), [[Bishop of London]] (1570–1576), and [[Archbishop of York]] (1576–1588) and was one of the translators of the [[Bishops' Bible]].

His mother, Anne Barne Lovelace, married as her second husband, on 20 January 1630, at [[Greenwich, England|Greenwich]], England, the Very Rev Dr [[Jonathan Browne]]. They were the parents of one child, Anne Browne, Richard's half-sister, who married [[Herbert Croft (bishop)|Herbert Croft]], later [[Bishop of Hereford]], and was the mother of [[Sir Herbert Croft, 1st Baronet|Sir Herbert Croft]], the first of the [[Croft baronets of Croft Castle (1671)|Croft baronets]].

Lovelace's brother, [[Francis Lovelace]] (1621–1675), was the second governor of the [[New York Colony]] appointed by the [[Duke of York]], later King [[James II of England]]. They were also great nephews of both [[George Sandys]]<ref name="google2">{{cite book|title=A History of American Literature ...|author=Tyler, M.C.|date=1890|publisher=GP Putnam's Sons.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VFgLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA52|page=52|access-date=25 August 2015}}</ref> (2 March 1577 – March 1644), an English traveller, colonist and poet; and of [[Edwin Sandys (died 1629)|Sir Edwin Sandys]]<ref name="google3">{{cite book|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland|author1=Burke, J.|author2=Burke, B.|date=1844|publisher=J. R. Smith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lF1tAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA468|page=468|access-date=25 August 2015}}</ref> (9 December 1561 – October 1629), an English statesman and one of the founders of the [[London Company]].

In 1629, when Lovelace was eleven, he went to Sutton's Foundation at [[Charterhouse School]], then in London.<ref name="weidhorn"/> There is no clear record that Lovelace actually attended; it is believed that he studied as a "boarder" because he did not need financial assistance like the "scholars".<ref name="weidhorn"/> He spent five years at Charterhouse, three of which were spent with [[Richard Crashaw]], who also became a poet. On 5 May 1631, Lovelace was sworn in as a Gentleman Wayter Extraordinary to [[Charles II of England|King Charles I]], an honorary position for which one paid a fee.<ref name="weidhorn"/> He went on to [[Gloucester College, Oxford|Gloucester Hall, Oxford]], in 1634.