Robert Wydow

Biography:

Robert Wydow was an English poet church musician and religious figure. Born in Thaxted Essex he was initially educated by his stepfather who was the local schoolmaster. By 1455 or 1456 he was studying music and Latin in the chapel of King's College Cambridge where he was a chorister. He was admitted to Eton College as a scholar where he studied from about 1460 to 1464 when he returned to King's College graduating in either 1467 or 1468.