Poet Laureate
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...to John Dryden in 1670. Drydens successors have been Thomas Shadwell (1688 92), Nahum Tate (1692 1715), Nicholas Rowe (1715 18), Laurence Eusden (1718 30), Colley Cibber (1730 57), William Whitehead (1757 85), Thomas Warton...