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Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. His works include a sonnet sequence , Astrophil and Stella , a treatise , The Defence of Poesy (also known as The Defence of Poesie or An Apology for Poetrie ...
Sidney was born in London, England, on 28 January 1828. He was the youngest child and only son born to Philip Sidney, 1st Baron De L'Isle and Dudley, and his wife, the former Lady Sophia FitzClarence. [1] His mother was an illegitimate daughter of King William IV and his mistress, the actress Dorothea Jordan.
William Sidney, 5th Baron De L'Isle and Dudley: Sir William Foulis, 8th Baronet: Mary Foulis: Mary Jane Ross: William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle: Robert Cooper Lee Bevan: Roland Yorke Bevan: Agneta Elizabeth Yorke: Winifred Agneta Yorke Bevan: Arthur Kinnaird, 10th Lord Kinnaird: Hon. Agneta Olivia Kinnaird: Mary Jane Hoare: Philip Sidney ...
Hon. Adelaide Augusta Wilhelmina Sidney (1 June 1826 – 20 September 1904). Married her first cousin, Hon. Frederick FitzClarence-Hunloke (son of George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster), in 1856; no issue. Philip Sidney, 2nd Baron De L'Isle and Dudley (28 January 1828 – 17 February 1898). Married firstly to Mary Foulis in 1850; had issue.
Greville is best known for his biography of Sidney (composed c. 1610–12), which circulated in manuscript with the title A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney. It was published in 1652 as The Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney. [n 1] He includes some autobiographical matter in what amounts to a treatise on government.
Henry Sidney also created what is now one of England's oldest private gardens, with records going back to 1346. Philip Sidney (1554–1586), Henry's son, was born at Penshurst Place in 1554. Poet and courtier, he was buried in Old St Paul's Cathedral in London, having died twenty-five days after a bullet wound to the thigh at the battle of ...
Frances Burke, Countess of Clanricarde, Dowager Countess of Essex (née Walsingham, formerly Devereux and Sidney; 1567 – 17 February 1633) was an English noblewoman. The daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham , Elizabeth I 's Secretary of State , she became the wife of Sir Philip Sidney at age 16.
Perhaps the marriage of Lady Essex with the earl of Leicester, which destroyed Philip Sidney's prospects as his uncle Leicester's heir, [7] had something to do with the breaking off of the proposed match with Penelope. [3] She had a strict Puritan upbringing and quite a simple life until she was presented at Court in early 1581.