caption death_date death_place birth_place birth_date article_title education name occupation
... church . -lrb- sic -rrb- '' where his parents are '' buried in swarston 5 november 1658 bradley , derbyshire swarkestone , derbyshire ca. 1596 thomas bancroft -lrb- poet -rrb-
 st catharine 's college , cambridge thomas bancroft grammar school usher , poet
thomas bancroft -lrb- poet -rrb-

thomas bancroft -lrb- c. 1596 -- 1658 -rrb- was a minor seventeenth-century english poet , he wrote a number of poems and epigrams addressed to notable people into which he embedded clever puns .
