Vaux, Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron
English poet
in full Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden
born 1510
died October 1556
one of the early English Tudor poets associated with Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey.Vaux accompanied the lord chancellor Thomas Cardinal Wolsey on his embassy to France in 1527 and attended King Henry VIII to Calais and Boulogne in 1532. Created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Anne Boleyn (1533), he was captain of the Isle of Jersey until 1536.
Vaux's two best-known poems, included in Richard Tottel's Miscellany (1557), are “The aged lover renounceth love” and “The assault of Cupide upon the fort where the lovers hart lay wounded, and how he was taken.” The Paradyse of daynty devises (1576) contains 13 poems signed by him.
- knight bachelor
- Knight, Bob
- Knight, Etheridge
- Knight, Frank Hyneman
- Knight, Gladys, and the Pips
- Knight, Gowin
- Knight, John S.
- Knight, Margaret E.
- Knighton, Henry
- Knight, Sarah Kemble
- Knightsbridge
- knight service
- Knights of Columbus
- Knights of Labor
- Knight, Thomas Andrew
- knight von Feuerbach, Paul
- Knipper-Chekhova, Olga Leonardovna
- knitting
- knocking
- Knolles, Richard
- Knollys, Sir Francis
- Knoop hardness
- Knopf, Alfred A.
- Knorozov, Yury Valentinovich
- Knorr, Ludwig