Roger Manwood

Sir Roger Manwood (* 1525, † 1593) was an English jurist and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

He received his training as a lawyer at the Inns of Court and reached the highest and most prestigious job as a lawyer, the Serjeant -at -law.

In 1563 he founded a free Grammar School in Sandwich, to allow the city population an education and training. 1578 he was appointed Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and served the Queen Elizabeth I to 1593rd

A short Latin epitaph of Christopher Marlowe for Roger Manwood has been preserved as a manuscript. One can assume with some plausibility, that it must have been written between December 1592, the date of death Roger Manwood, and May 1593 to the time of death Marlowe. The Latin epitaph found on the back of the title page of a copy of Marlowe and Chapman's "Hero and Leander ".