VAUX (OF HARROWDEN), THOMAS VAUX, 2ND BARON

born 1510 died October 1556 one of the early English Tudor poets associated with Sir Thomas Wyat 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.