John Suckling
Poet
Seventeenth-century English poet who is remembered for a poem entitled "Ballad Upon a Wedding."
He studied at the English Court (Gray's Inn), as well as at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He invented cribbage, a popular card game.
He was born into a noble Middlesex family and, at age eighteen, inherited the estate of his father.
He was born in the last years of William Shakespeare's life.