1562–1647

Introduction

Buried: St. Giles Crip­ple­gate, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Biography

John was the son of Ri­chard Mil­ton, hus­band of Sara Jef­frey (mar­ried cir­ca 1599), and fa­ther of po­et John Mil­ton (1608–1674), and judge Sir Chris­to­pher Mil­ton.

He is pri­ma­ri­ly rem­em­bered as a com­pos­er, though he al­so dab­bled in po­et­ry.

Sources

Music

Help Needed

If you know where to get a good pic­ture of Mil­ton (head-and-shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),