Wanley, Nathaniel (1633-03-27 - 1680-12-02)

Nathaniel Wanley was baptised on 27 March 1633 at Leicester. He was admitted pensioner, aged sixteen, at Peterhouse, Cambridge on 21 December 1649. He graduated B.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1653, proceeding M.A. in 1657. He was presented by Dorothy Spencer, countess of Sunderland to the rectory of Beeby, Leicestershire in the same year. On 20 October 1662, he became vicar of Trinity Church, Coventry. Throughout his lifetime, he was a prolific poet as well as a churchman. His children included the librarian and palaeographer Humfrey Wanley (1672-1726). Nathaniel Wanley was buried in Coventry on 2 December 1680. See Philip West, 'Nathaniel Wanley and George Herbert: The Dis-Engaged and The Temple', The Review of English Studies, 57.230 (2006), pp. 337-358.