Admitted 30 July, 1597.
Son and heir of Sir Nicholas Overbury (q. v.) of Aston-sub-Edge, co. Gloucester. He was baptized at Compton Scorpion, Warwickshire, 18 June, 1581. How long he remained a student does not appear; but probably no long period, as about the time of the accession of James I. (1603), he became familiar with Robert Carr, and before that time had travelled for some time on the Continent, whence he "returned a most accomplished person." For the history of his connection with Carr and of his murder through the machinations of that nobleman and the Countess of Essex, see the account by Andrew Amos (q. v.), entitled The Great Oyer of Poisoning (1846). [See also Francklin's Annals of James I., Brydges's Memoirs of the Peers of England, and The State Trials.] Sir Thomas Overbury was introduced at Court in 1604, knighted in 1608, and his death occurred in 1613.
As an author he is pronounced by Wood (Athen. Oxon. ii., 135), to have "excelled in learning and judgment any of his years," and Ben Jonson and the epigrammatists of the time unite in his praise. He has lelt the following works: A Wife: Being a most exquisite and singular Poem on the Choice of a Wife (1614); Characters, or Witty Descriptions of the Properties of some Persons (1615) [this was again published with additions in 1616]; Of the Remedy of Love: A Poem (1620); Observations on the State of the Seventeen Provinces (1627); Observations upon the Provinces United, and of France (1651); The Trial of Sir Walter Raleigh (1648). His miscellaneous works in prose and verse, with a Memoir of his life, were published in 1632, and better editions, 1756 and 1856.
OXFORD, EARL OF. See HARLEY, ROBERT.
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Admitted 5 January, 1698-9.
Son and heir of John Pack of Fulham, who settled at Stoke Ash, in Suffolk, where he was born. He was called to the Bar 7 May, 1703, but finding habits of study and application to business unsuitable to his health and inclination, he left the law and entered the army, whei-e he obtained his first command in 1705. He distinguished himself in the Spanish war under General Stanhope and the Duke of Argyll and attained to the rank of major. He acquired more celebrity, however, by his writings, of which the following were published: A Miscellany of Poems (1718); The Life of T. P. Atticus (1719); Religion and Philosophy: a Tale (1720); The Force of Love (1725); New Collection of Poetical Miscellanies, with the Lives of Miltiades and Cymon, from C. Nepos (1725). His whole works were published in 1729, the year following his death.
Admitted 17 February, 1777.
Second son of Francis Page of Newbury, Berkshire. He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1791 and was called to the Bar in 1792, but became a Reader at the Middle Temple in 1830, and Treasurer in 1831. His attention having been called to the incidence of the Poor Laws as it affected his own property he devoted himself to the study of their character, and the result of
