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UNTON (or UMPTON), SIR HENRY (c. 1557-1596)

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 781 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TUM-VAN
UNTON (or UMPTON), SIR HENRY (c. 1557-1596) , English diplomatist, was the second son of Sir Edward Unton, or Umpton (d. 1583), of Wadley, near Faringdon, Berkshire, his mother, Anne (d. 1588), being a daughter of Edward Seymour, duke of Somerset, the protector. Educated at Oriel College, Oxford, Unton became a member of
parliament
  in 1584 and served with the English forces in the Netherlands in 1585 and 1586, being present at the skirmish of Zutphen. In 1586 he was knighted. In 1591, through the good offices of the
earl
  of Essex, Unton was sent as
ambassador
  to
Henry
  IV. of France; he became very friendly with this king and accompanied him on a campaign in Normandy before he was recalled to England in June 1592. Again securing a seat in
parliament
  he lost for a short time the favour of Queen Elizabeth; however, in 1593 he went again as
ambassador
  to France. He died in the French camp at La Fere on the 23rd of March 1596, a collection of Latin verses being published in his memory at Oxford later in the year. This was edited by his chaplain, Robert
Wright
  (1560-1643), afterwards bishop of Lichfield and Coventry.
There is an interesting picture in the National Portrait Gallery re-presenting Unton and various scenes in his life. Many of his official letters are in the British Museum and in the Public Record Office, London. A collection of these was edited by Joseph Stevenson (1847), and some are printed in W. Murdiu's Burghley Papers (1759).


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