Abstract
Very little is known of the life of Cyril Tourneur. He was born sometime between 1570 and 1580, after which virtually no record of him exists until 1614, when he is referred to in a letter as ‘one Cyril Turner, that belongs to General Cecil and was in former times Secretary to Sir Francis Vere’. Cecil took Tourneur with him as Secretary of the Council of War when he sailed to raid Spanish treasure ships in Cadiz in 1625. The expedition was a failure and when, on the voyage home, plague broke out on board the flagship Royal Anne, Tourneur was one of 150 sick men put ashore at Kinsale in Ireland. He died there in February 1626.
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