John Caryll (senior)

John Caryll (1625–1711), 1st Baron Caryll of Durford in the Jacobite Peerage, was a poet, dramatist, and diplomat. He should not be confused with his nephew, John Caryll the younger, the dedicatee of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock. The former is sometimes referred to as Mr. Secretary Caryll, and the latter as Squire Caryll.

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