sutton's-hospital

Updated: August 15, 2026

Son of an eminent divine named William Crashaw, was educated in grammar learning in Sutton's-Hospital called the Charter-House, near London, and in academical, partly in Pembroke-Hall, of which he was a scholar, and afterwards in Peterhouse, Cambridge, of which he was a fellow, where, as in the former house, he was distinguished for his Latin and English poetry.

Theophilus Cibber - The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753): Volume I.