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Algernon Sidney or Sydney (15 January 1623 – 7 December 1683) was an English politician, republican political theorist and colonel. A member of the middle part of the Long Parliament and commissioner of the trial of King Charles I of England , he opposed the king's execution.
Trevor Colbourn writes that Sidney's political thought was a significant influence on Andrew Eliot, Jonathan Mayhew, Sam Adams and Josiah Quincy Jr. [27] The Discourses was in the personal libraries of John Adams, Robert Carter I, Robert Carter III and Thomas Jefferson (listed in 1771). [28] Adams in particular was "a lifelong Sidney enthusiast".
Sidney, Algernon (25 October 2006) [1683], Colonel Sidney's Speech Delivered to the sheriff on the scaffold December 7th 1683, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, archived from the original on 16 July 2012
But it was the English political theorist Algernon Sidney who originated the now familiar wording, "God helps those who help themselves", [13] apparently the first exact rendering of the phrase. Benjamin Franklin later used it in his Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) and has been widely quoted. [14]
It was written c. 1660 by the English soldier-statesman Algernon Sidney, who was an opponent of Charles II and who was later executed for treason. The motto was first adopted in 1775 by the Massachusetts General Court (the official name of the state legislature) and applied to the temporary seal of Massachusetts.
Algernon Sidney Buford [4] (January 2, 1826 – May 6, 1911) was a Virginian businessman, politician, and lawyer best known for his 22-year presidency of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, during which he was responsible for growing the line from 140 miles in length to 3,000 miles in length.
In 1683, Algernon Sydney was executed for his part in the Rye House Plot, an alleged conspiracy to assassinate Charles II along with his brother James, and place Monmouth on the throne. [7] As William's wife Mary was then heir to the English throne, he provided troops to help suppress the June 1685 Monmouth Rebellion.
The award was first given by the New York Southern Society in honor of prominent New York lawyer, Algernon Sydney Sullivan, at Peabody College in Nashville, now part of Vanderbilt University. [1] [2] That success led to the establishment of the Award in other institutions, and for the disposition of the fund provided for that purpose.