Full Name: John Milton.
Nickname: Milton the Divorcer.

Father: John Milton, Sr. (1562–1647).
Mother: Sarah Jeffrey (1572–1637).
Sister: Anne (older).
Brother: Christopher (lawyer, younger).
Wife: Mary Powell (m. 1642, d. 1652).
Daughter: Anne (b. 1646).
Daughter: Mary (b. 1648).
Daughter: Deborah (b. 1652).
Wife: Katherine Woodcock (m. 1656, d. 1658).
Wife: Elizabeth Minshull (m. 1662, d. 1728).

Date of Birth: 9 December 1608.
Birth Place: Bread Street, Cheapside, London, England.
Date of Death: 8 November 1674 (aged 65)
Death Place: Bunhill, London, England
Cause of Death: Unspecified
Remains: Buried, St. Giles Cripplegate Churchyard, London
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Poet, Prose Polemicist, Civil Servant
Nationality: England

Education: Christ's College, Cambridge, St Paul's School, University of Cambridge.

Books:
  • Paradise Lost (1667)
  • Areopagitica (1644)
  • Paradise Regained (1671)
  • Samson Agonistes (1671)
  • The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
  • The portable Milton
  • Dynamics of small neural populations. etc.
Early Life: English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) is best known for Paradise Lost, widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English. John Milton was born on Bread Street, London. His father senior John Milton (1562–1647) composer and his mother Sarah Jeffrey, found lasting financial success as a scrivener. He was educated at St. Paul's School and Christ's College, Cambridge and while at university began writing poetry in Latin, Italian and English. In 1628 Milton wrote his first major English poem, On the Death of a Fair Infant, Dying of the Cough. A year later he wrote On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, celebrating the harmonizing power of divine love. Then he wrote On Shakespeare (1632), Lycidas (1637), Epitaphium Damonis (1639), Of Reformation (1641), Of Prelatical Episcopacy (1641), The Reason of Church Government (1642) and Apology for Smectymnuus (1642).

Personal Life: Milton married three times. He first married Mary Powell (1625–1652) and had four children (Anne, Mary, John, and Deborah) in 1642. After her death,  Milton married again to Katherine Woodcock On 12 November 1656. Milton married for a third time on 24 February 1662, to Elizabeth Minshull (1638–1728).

Later Life: In 1643 he published a pamphlet in favour of divorce on grounds of incompatibility, the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. At the age of 37, he published a volume of his poems, Poems both in English and Latin, in 1645. At the age of 43, his eyesight had begun to fail, and by 1651 he was completely blind. Milton has inspired countless works by artists, filmmakers, musicians, authors, and poets in the 21st Century including John Keats, William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord George Gordon Byron. After being blind he published Paradise Lost (1667), The History of Britain (1670), Paradise Regained (1671), Samson Agonistes (1671) and Of True Religion (1673). John Milton died on 12 November 1674 in Artillery Row, London, and was buried with his father in the church of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, London, England.