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Andrew Marvell

Died in 1678

Andrew Marvell was born in 1621 near Hull, the son of a clergyman who drowned in 1641 while crossing the Humber. He studied at Cambridge, travelled for four years on the Continent during the Civil War, without it being known which side he was on, then became a tutor in a great house in Yorkshire. He served the Republic as Latin secretary, represented his town in Parliament from 1659 until his death, and intervened after the Restoration to save a former colleague. He died in 1678.

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