Grimald, Nicholas (1519-1562)

English poet and theologian. He is remembered for his contributions to Tottel's Songes and Sonettes (1557). He was also the first poet after the Earl of Surrey to use blank verse. Two Latin tragedies by Grimald are still extant: Archipropheta sive Johannes Baptista (1548) and Christus redivivus (1543). He also translated Cicero's De Officiis and Virgil's Georgics.

Grimald was born in Huntingdonshire and educated at Cambridge. He became a probationer fellow of Merton College, Oxford in 1541, and chaplain to Bishop Ridley in 1547. His connection with Ridley led to his imprisonment and he is said to have escaped only by recanting.