Edward Alleyn

Edward Ned Alleyn was an English actor who was a major figure of the Elizabethan theatre and founder of Dulwich College and Alleyns School.

Alleyn was born on September 1, 1566 in Bishopsgate, London or so it was recorded in the Biographia Britannica as a product of Alleyns own writing. Alleyn does record his birth date in a diary several times but never distinctly identifies his birth place as Bishopsgate. In the St. Botolph parish registers it is recorded that he was baptized on the day after his birth. He was born a younger son of Edward Alleyn with three brothers named John, William, and Edward. His father was an innkeeper and porter to the queen, and his mother, Margaret Townley was the daughter of John Townley. His mothers link to the Lancashire Townley family is somewhat of a mystery. Alleyn said she was the daughter of John Townley of Townley but the claim does not easily fit with the available information on the Townley family tree. Regardless the road that passes his school was named after her in 1884. He was baptised at St BotolphwithoutBishopsgate. He was known to contemporaries as Ned his surname is variously

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