Sternhold, Thomas, principal author of the first English metrical version of the Psalms, originally attached to the Prayer-Book as augmented by John Hopkins; continued in general use till Tate and Brady's version of 1696 was substituted in 1717; was a Hampshire man, and held the post of Groom of the Robes to Henry VIII. and Edward VI. (1500‒1549).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Sterne, Laurence * Steropes