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Fulke Greville 1st Baron Brooke de jure 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke KB PC (3 October 1554 – 30 September 1628) known before 1621 as Sir Fulke Greville was an Elizabethan poet dramatist and statesman who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1581 and 1621 when he was raised to the peerage.Greville was a capable administrator who served the English Crown under Elizabeth I and James I as successively treasurer of the navy chancellor of the exchequer and commissioner of the Treasury and who for his services was in 1621 made Baron Brooke peer of the realm.

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