Soame, William, Sir, 1643 or 1644-1686
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found: Boileau-Despréaux, N. The art of poetry, 1683:(name not given)
found: Guilford, Francis North. The late Lord Chief Justice North's argument, 1689:t.p. (Sir William Soames, Sheriff of Suffolk) p. 3 (Sir William Soame, late Sheriff of Suffolk)
found: NUC pre-1956(Soames, Sir William, tr.)
found: Wikipedia online, viewed 3 August 2016(Sir William Soame, 1st Baronet; c.1645-1686; English translator and diplomat; admitted a fellow commoner of St John's College, Cambridge in 1660; Soame was High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1672-3; the office brought him into conflict with Sir Samuel Barnardiston over the handling of the by-election for Suffolk caused by the suicide of Sir Henry North; Soame was an envoy to the Kingdom of Savoy, around 1680; he was created a baronet by Charles II in 1685; fellow of the Royal Society; ambassador to the Ottoman Empire; Soame died on Malta in June 1686; Soame made a translation, The Art of Poetry, of Nicolas Boileau's L'Art poétique, which was published in 1683)
found: Alumni Cantabrigienses. Part I, 1927:v. 4, p. 120 (Soame, William; admitted fellow commoner aged 16 at St John's College December 21, 1660; born in Little Thurlow Suffolk; Sheriff of Suffolk 1672-3; knighted February 21, 1674; created baronet February 5, 1685; ambassador to Turkey 1685-6; died at Malta June 2, 1686)
notfound: DNB;Alumni Oxonienses;Watt's Bibl. Brit.
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