Eleanor Bull

Eleanor is known for owning the establishment in which Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabethan playwright and poet, died in 1593 as the result of a quarrel with Ingram Frizer. Also present were Nicholas Skeres and Robert Poley.

The house was on Deptford Strand, in Deptford, which was in Kent, but is now within London.

Eleanor was a great-niece to Blanche Parry, a companion of Queen Elizabeth I. Blanche gave Eleanor a large legacy in her Will.

Eleanor may be related by family to Dr. John Dee, astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I.

She was born Eleanor (or Elinor) Whitney, daughter of James and Sybil (Parry) Whitney of Clifford. Although the main branch of the Whitney family had a castle at Whitney-on-Wye, in Herefordshire, Eleanor was from a related branch of that family who resided in nearby Clifford, Herefordshire.

See the family summary for James and Sybil (Parry) Whitney on the Whitney Research Group wiki website.

References

Sources

• The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl [Vintage; New Ed edition (3 Oct 2002)]