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    John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1 April 1647 – 26 July 1680) was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court, who reacted against...
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    Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester (26 October 1612 – 19 February 1658), known as The Lord Wilmot between 1643 and 1644 and as The Viscount Wilmot between...
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  • The Libertine (2005 film) (category Cultural depictions of Charles II of England)
    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...
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  • Libertine (category History of human sexuality)
    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...
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    character after John Wilmot (1647–1680), the second Earl of Rochester. Murray Pittock argued that the Earl is not merely Rochester's namesake but that his...
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    Merry Gang (category Court of Charles II of England)
    Harlots. Paragon Publishing. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-78222-315-3. Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of; Kilgour, Maggie (14 March 2013). Selected Poems. Oxford University...
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    Cromwell's Earl Harper Collins London 1994 p. 248 Ollard p. 248 Pritchard, R. E. (2012). Passion For Living: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. ISD LLC. p...
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  • Charles Wilmot, 1st Viscount Wilmot of Athlone (c. 1572 – 1644) was an English soldier active in Ireland. He was the son of Edward Wilmot of Culham (otherwise...
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    of Rochester (5 November 1614 – 18 March 1696), married first Sir Francis Henry Lee, 2nd Baronet, of Ditchley, and second Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester...
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    drinking, womanizing, and witty conversation, with Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester, outdoing all the rest. Many of them were inveterate gamblers and brawlers....
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    survived and many Royalists, for example Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, fitted this description to a tee. Of another Cavalier, George Goring, Lord Goring...
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    given Charles' queen. Louise is mentioned in "A Satyr on Charles II", a 1673 poetical lampoon at the King's expense, written by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester...
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    Robert Lee, 4th Earl of Lichfield (3 July 1706 – 3 November 1776). After the death of her husband's cousin Charles Wilmot, 3rd Earl of Rochester the couple...
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  • seen as a portrait of Beau Hewit, the reigning exquisite, Dorimant to be a reference to the Earl of Rochester, and Medley a portrait of Etherege himself...
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  • 1707 in Great Britain (category Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain)
    (frequently reprinted hereafter) John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon John Oldmixon, The Muses...
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  • Lee baronets (category Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England)
    of what had once been Wilmot possessions> "My dearest sonne": Letters from the Countess of Rochester to the Earl of Lichfield University of Rochester...
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    easy of access, not bloody or cruel". John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, wrote more lewdly of Charles: Restless he rolls from whore to whore A merry...
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    Nathaniel Lee (category Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge)
    (acted 1683) followed. He had lived in the dissipated society of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, and his associates, and imitated their excesses. As he grew...
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    Dominic Cooper (category Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art)
    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...
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  • 1667–1680: John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester 1669–1685: Charles Sackville, Lord Buckhurst 1672–1683 (extra) & 1673–1682: John Sheffield, 3rd Earl of Mulgrave...
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    Elizabeth Barry took the part of Draxilla, and her lover, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, recommended Otway to the Duke of York (later King James II)...
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  • right of the King's army with the greater part of the horse; Lord Lindsey and Sir Jacob Astley in the centre with the foot, while Henry Wilmot, Earl of Rochester...
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  • 1675 in literature (category Years of the 17th century in literature)
    Shadwell – The Libertine William Wycherley – The Country Wife John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester – A Satire Against Mankind (published 1679) February 26 (baptized)...
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    hedonistic establishment commemorating the libertine values of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, featured in the crime novel Clubbed to Death by Ruth Dudley...
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    1644 to Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, a leading Royalist during the English Civil War, son of Charles Wilmot, 1st Viscount Wilmot and Sarah Anderson...
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  • Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle; Thomas Stanley; Andrew Marvell; Izaak Walton; John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester; The Earl of Roscommon; Charles Cotton; Dr. Henry...
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    Lost and the John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester's Sodom, the high-spirited sexual comedy of The Country Wife and the moral wisdom of The Pilgrim's Progress...
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    Nell Gwyn (category Mistresses of Charles II of England)
    friendship of Dryden, the playwright Aphra Behn, William Ley, 4th Earl of Marlborough (a lover of hers), John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, and the King's...
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    Gondibert (category Cultural depictions of Charles II of England)
    Dryden in Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell and Annus Mirabilis. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester uses it satirically in The Disabled Debauchee...
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    Army Plots (1641) (category Charles I of England)
    involved with the second. Along with two other M.P.s, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester was expelled from the Long Parliament in December 1641 for alleged...
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