NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680 NRA: Wilmot John (1647-1680) 2nd Earl of Rochester poet DNB: Wilmot, John, second earl of Rochester (1647-1680), poet and courtier LBT ID: LdRoche2 VIAF ID: 34465786 LOC ID: n79027135 | B/BAP: 1647-04-10 DIED: 1680-07-26 |
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Court wit and libertine poet; he was an intimate of the Duke of Buckingham, Charles
Sedley and Henry Savile. | |