Richard Carlton

Born c. 1558, Richard Carlton graduated from Clare College, Cambridge in 1577.

In October 1612 he was given a living at Bawsey-cum-Glosthorpe in Norfolk where he presided until his death in c.

[1] In 1601 Carlton's madrigal Calm was the air was published in Thomas Morley The Triumphs of Oriana, and that same year he published a collection of madrigals in London.

One of his madrigals, Come, woeful Orpheus, was an elegy to Sir John Shelton.

These two 1601 works were his only publications, although original copies of two of his unpublished anthems are in the collection at the Bodleian Library and another unpublished pavane is in the collection of the British Library.