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In midlife, Jonson said his paternal grandfather, who "served King Henry 8 and was a gentleman", [7] was a member of the extended Johnston family of Annandale in the Dumfries and Galloway, a genealogy that is attested by the three spindles in the Jonson family coat of arms: one spindle is a diamond-shaped heraldic device used by the Johnston ...
Ben Jonson was probably born in or near London, England, about a month after the death of his father, a clergyman (someone who works for the church). His father gained his position when King Henry VIII (1491–1547) ruled England, but lost it after Queen Mary (1516–1558) took the throne. Jonson's mother then married a bricklayer.
Ben Jonson, dramatist and poet, is the only person buried in an upright position in Westminster Abbey. He was born on 11th June 1572 but little is known about his parents. The family was of Scottish descent and his father became a clergymen.
While Jonson was still a ‘little child’ in ‘his long coats’, however, his mother married again, this time to a bricklayer, and the family moved to Hartshorn (or Christopher) Lane, a narrow alleyway which ran from the Strand to Thames-side wharves, not far from Charing Cross (Early Lives, Fuller).
Ben Johnson is a Jamaican-born Canadian former sprinter who gained notoriety following a doping scandal in the late 1980s. This biography of Ben Johnson provides detailed information about his childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline.
Ben Jonson was a poet and a playwright, born on 11th June 1572, in the reign of Elizabeth I. Jonson was of Scottish descent and throughout his life maintained a great interest in Scotland and his ancestry. He was brought up by his recently widowed mother and had quite a poor upbringing.
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Here as elsewhere in his writing Jonson gives little sense of the possible companionship of his marriage and family life. Little is known about Anne, the wife whom Jonson many years later was tersely to describe as ‘a shrew yet honest’ ( Informations, 192).
