Harcourt (1574/5 - 1631), of Nuneham on 20 March 1598.

Horace Vere was a first cousin of the court poet and playwright Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), Lord Great Chamberlain of England under Queen Elizabeth I, and possibly the model for the character of Hamlet's friend, "good Horatio".

Military career

Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604)

Vere left home in 1590 to join his two elder brothers, Robert and Sir

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