Giles Farnaby [SEP] place of death
Giles Farnaby
Giles Farnaby (c. 1563 – November 1640) was an English composer and virginalist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods.
Life.
Giles Farnaby was born about 1563, perhaps in Truro, Cornwall or near London. His father, Thomas, was a "Cittizen and Joyner of London", and Giles may have been related to Thomas Farnaby (c. 1575–1647), the famous schoolmaster of Kent, whose father was a carpenter. But it was his cousin Nicholas Farnaby (c. 1560–1630),
was buried at St Giles in Cripplegate. The virginalist Giles Farnaby also lived in Grub Street from 1634 until his death in 1640.
An early use of the land surrounding Grub Street was archery. In "Records of St. Giles' Cripplegate" (1883), the author describes an order made by Henry VII to convert Finsbury Fields from gardens, to fields for archery practice, however in Elizabethan times archery became unfashionable, and Grub Street is described as largely deserted, "except for low gambling houses and bowling-alleys