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SIR THOMAS (1581-1613).-Poet and miscellaneous writer, _ed._ at Oxf., became the friend of Carr, afterwards Earl of Rochester and Somerset, and fell a victim to a Court intrigue connected with the proposed marriage of Rochester and Lady Essex, being poisoned in the Tower with the connivance of the latter. He wrote a poem, _A Wife, now a Widowe_, and _Characters_ (1614), short, witty descriptions of types of men. Some of those _pub._ along with his are by other hands.