![]() ![]() ![]() In the spring of that year he was expelled from Middle Temple, due to his financial problems, and Fame's Memorial and Honour Triumphant soon followed. It was not until 1606 that Ford wrote his first works for publication. (It is unknown whether Ford ever actually studied law while a resident of the Middle Temple, or whether he was strictly a gentleman boarder, which was a common arrangement at the time.) ![]() A prominent junior member in 1601 was the playwright John Marston. He joined an institution that was a prestigious law school but also a centre of literary and dramatic activity - the Middle Temple. 1640?) was an English Jacobean and Caroline playwright and poet born in Ilsington in Devon in 1586.įord left home to study in London, although more specific details are unclear - a sixteen-year-old John Ford of Devon was admitted to Exeter College, Oxford on 26 March 1601, but this was when the dramatist had not yet reached his sixteenth birthday. ![]()
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