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...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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)...

Laurence Hyde (Earl of Rochester, 1682), Sidney Godolphin (Lord Godolphin, 1684) and the Earl of Sunderland. Rochester, brother-in-law of King Charles II's...

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...

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...

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)...

against Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, and again in 1618 when, at Croydon, he forbade the reading of the Declaration of Sports listing the permitted...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

a thrashing at the hands of Lord Rochester's bravoes for the reflections it contained upon the earl. Mulgrave was a patron of Dryden, who may possibly...

2nd Earl of Cork, and Elizabeth Boyle, Countess of Cork. In 1665, she married Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, son of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon...

contained such High Tories as Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, and her uncle Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester. It was headed by Lord Treasurer Lord Godolphin...