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BIOGRAPHY
George Herbert (b. 1593) was born in Montgomery, Wales. Herbert's father died in 1596, leaving him, his six brothers and three sisters to be raised by their mother, a patron to the poet John Donne. Herbert was educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge, and after graduation was elected public orator for the school. In 1624, when he was elected to represent Montgomery in Parliament, it seemed that Herbert was headed for a life in public office, but in 1626 he turned away from his secular ambitions by becoming a deacon, a job that barred him from civil office. Herbert spent the rest of his life as a rector in Bemerton, preaching and writing poetry. As he was dying of consumption Herbert gave orders for his manuscript, The Temple, to be sent to his friend Nicholas Ferrar. The book was published three years after Herbert's death and its influence has stretched from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to T. S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas.