Sir John Stradling, 1st Baronet

Sir John Stradling, 1st Baronet (1563 – 9 September 1637), was an English poet, scholar and politician.

He was educated under Edward Green, a canon of Bristol, before matriculating at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1580.

He graduated BA from Magdalen Hall in 1584, having gained a reputation as "a miracle for his forwardness in learning and pregnancy of parts".

[2] In 1609, on the death of Sir Edward Stradling, he inherited St Donat's Castle and estate in Glamorgan.

He "was courted and admired" by William Camden, who quotes him as "vir doctissimus" in his Britannia,[4] by Sir John Harington, Thomas Leyson, and Ioan David Rhys, to all of whom he wrote epigrams.