After university he seems to have worked in a secretarial capacity for various great men before settling as private secretary to Arthur, Lord Grey of Wilton
, in 1580. Grey's top appointment in Ireland that...
Residence
Edmund Spenser
ES
's employer, Arthur, Lord Grey of Wilton
, arrived in Ireland as Lord Deputy there for the monarch. Spenser probably travelled with him.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Timeline
9 November 1580
At Smerwick on the Dingle peninsula in Ireland the English Lord Deputy, Arthur, Lord Grey of Wilton
, ordered the massacre about 600 European mercenary soldiers who had already surrendered to him.
