| Izaak Walton
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 | Biography
Izaak Walton was born in Stafford. His father, who was an innkeeper, died before Izaak was three. His mother then married another innkeeper. Walton had probably some schooling in Stafford, but he moved to London where he was apprenticed to a cloth merchant. In the 1610s he was a proprietor of an ironmonger's shop. His shop was in Fleet Street and his house in Chancery Lane. In 1618 he became a freeman of the Ironmonger's Company, eventually making himself prosperous through his own drapery business. In 1626 Walton married Rachel Floud; they had seven children who all died young. Rachel died in 1640. She was a relative of Archbishop Cranmer and Walton started to move in clerical circles. His second marriage was with Ann Ken in 1646. |
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