Abstract
Thomas Drant (c.1540–78) was born in Hagworthingham, Lincolnshire, the son of a farmer. He matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge in 1558 and received his BA in 1561, MA in 1564, and BD in 1569, having been appointed a fellow of the college in 1561. During the 1560s, Drant acted as domestic chaplain for Edmund Grindal, bishop of London, and towards the end of the decade he left Cambridge for a successful career as a Church of England clergyman, holding the position of archdeacon of Lewes, Sussex, from 1570 to his death in 1578. His main significance for literary history is as the first English translator of Horace's Satires, Epistles , and Art of poetry (1566–67), but he also contributed to debates over quantitative verse in English in the 1570s and wrote a number of other works in English and neo‐Latin.
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