Earl of Rochester was a title that was created twice in the Peerage of England. The first creation came in 1652 in favour of the Royalist soldier Henry...

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1 April 1647 (O.S.) – 26 July 1680 (O.S.)) was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court...

Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, KG, PC (March 1642 – 2 May 1711) was an English statesman and writer. He was originally a supporter of James II but later...

up Rochester in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rochester may refer to: Rochester, Kent Rochester, Northumberland Rochester, Illinois Rochester, Indiana...

appointed a member of the Privy Council and in September was promoted, along with Viscount Hyde (afterwards Earl of Rochester) and the Earl of Sunderland, to...

2nd Earl of Rochester can refer to: John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647 – 1680), English Libertine poet Henry Hyde, 4th Earl of Clarendon and 2nd...

Wilmot, Countess of Rochester (née Malet; 1651 – 20 August 1681) was an English heiress and the wife of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, the "libertine"...

and was created Earl of Rochester in 1682. Lord Clarendon's daughter Anne Hyde married the future King James II and was the mother of Queen Mary II and...

Hyde (Earl of Rochester, 1682), Sidney Godolphin (Lord Godolphin, 1684) and the Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland. Rochester, brother-in-law of King...

Stephen Jeffreys from his play of the same name, and stars Johnny Depp and Samantha Morton as John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester and Elizabeth Barry, with...

Buckingham and Rochester, without the royal want of feeling, the duke's want of principles or the earl's want of thought; and Congreve reported of him when...

Hyde, Earl of; Rochester, Laurence Hyde, Earl of (1828). The Correspondence of Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, and His Brother Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester:...

Lieutenant-General Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester (26 October 1612 – 19 February 1658), known as The Lord Wilmot between 1643 and 1644 and as The...

Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, and the Marquis de Sade. The word libertine was originally coined by John Calvin to negatively describe opponents of his policies...

John Wilmot (1647–1680), the second Earl of Rochester. Murray Pittock argued that the Earl is not merely Rochester's namesake but that his "career as it...

on John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, who stated their aim was to restore the idea of masculinity that had prevailed at the time of Henry II (r. 1154–1189)...

daughter of Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, and Henrietta Hyde, Countess of Rochester. They had six children: The Hon. Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch...

1679 – 9 September 1684) Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, First Lord Sir John Ernle, also Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet...

Laurence Hyde may refer to: Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (1641–1711) Laurence Hyde (artist) (1914–1987), Canadian film maker, painter and graphic...

2002, pp. 60–61 Jacob Huysmans, Portrait of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester at Sotheby's The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Friday 26 August 1664 Porter...

been attributed to John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, though its authorship is disputed. Determining the date of composition and attribution are complicated...

Restoration poet John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. "A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind" addresses the question of the proper use of reason, and is generally...

well-received West End revival of Stephen Jeffreys' 1994 play, The Libertine at the Haymarket Theatre; he played John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, the role originated...

many Royalists, for example Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, fitted this description to a tee. Of another Cavalier, George Goring, Lord Goring, a...

included John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester; Henry Jermyn; Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset; John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave; Henry Killigrew; Sir Charles...

Lord Rochester may refer to: Earl of Rochester Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester (1612–1658), English soldier John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680)...

1st Earl of Salisbury, KG, PC (1 June 1563 – 24 May 1612) was an English statesman noted for his direction of the government during the Union of the Crowns...

Earl of Essex PC (c. 1631 – 13 July 1683), also spelt Capel, of Cassiobury House, Watford, Hertfordshire, was an English statesman. He was the son of...

an excess". Libertine literature such as those by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester evoked eroticism to the readers.[how?] Because eroticism is wholly...

He was the only son of the 11th Earl of Shrewsbury and his second wife, formerly Anna Maria Brudenell, a daughter of the 2nd Earl of Cardigan. His mother...