Russell and Carol - hayle and hearty

Came across an interesting character today via Twitter https://twitter.com/stellacreasy/status/385373352866906112 and https://gascoigne.eventbrite.com/

George
Gascoigne, one of the often-overlooked generation before Shakespeare,
is remembered in Walthamstow as the town's own Elizabethan poet. He was
also a soldier turned pacifist, a lawyer, a writer of prose fiction
before the time of the novel, a courtier who failed at court despite
being the inventor of the cult of Elizabeth as a demi-goddess married to
her country, a member of a family so dysfunctional that his mother
stole his sheep, and an MP who was drummed out of parliament for being a
"common rhymer and notorious ruffian".

Sounds fascinating!