John Dennys

John Dennys (died 1609), a poet and fisherman, pioneered Angling poetry in England.

[13] Verses from the book have been quoted in other works,[14] such as Izaak Walton in the first part of the first chapter of his 1653 edition of The Compleat Angler.

[15][nb 6] Dennys received at the hand of Thomas Westwood (1814–1888), the epithet "The Fisherman's Glorious John".

William Shakespeare lived for a while at Dursley, not too far from Dennys's manor of Oldbury-on-Hill, north of Pucklechurch.

[23] Thomas Westwood wrote the following epitaph for John Dennys: Calm be his sleep in the old aisle of Pucklechurch!