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...
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William Philip Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle, VC, KG, GCMG, GCVO, KStJ, PC (23 May 1909 – 5 April 1991), known as Lord De L'Isle and Dudley between 1945...
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literary patronage. By the age of 39, she was listed with her brother Philip Sidney and with Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare among the notable authors...
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Philip Sidney, 2nd Baron De L'Isle and Dudley, DL (28 January 1828 – 17 February 1898), was an English hereditary peer. Sidney was born in London, England...
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Philip Sidney (1554–1586) was an English poet, courtier and soldier. Philip Sidney may also refer to: Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester (1619–1698)...
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Viscount De L'Isle (redirect from Shelley-Sidney baronets)
in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. His son and heir apparent, Philip Sidney, represented Eye in the House of Commons. In 1835, fourteen years before...
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Philip John Algernon Sidney, 2nd Viscount De L'Isle, CVO, CStJ, MBE, DL (born 21 April 1945), is a British hereditary peer and former soldier. Lord De...
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Philip Sidney Post (March 19, 1833 – January 6, 1895) was an American diplomat, politician, and decorated Army officer. He served as a United States Representative...
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Kingdom and his longtime mistress Dorothea Jordan. She was married to Philip Sidney, 1st Baron De L'Isle and Dudley, and had four surviving children. Shortly...
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Penshurst Place (section Sidney family)
ancestral home of the Sidney family, and was the birthplace of the great Elizabethan poets and courtiers, siblings Mary Sidney and Philip Sidney. The original...
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Sidney Poitier KBE (/ˈpwɑːtjeɪ/ PWAH-tyay; February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In...
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improvements. Greville is best known today as the biographer of Sir Philip Sidney, and for his sober poetry, which presents dark and thoughtful views...
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a town on January 30, 1792. The town was named for Sir Philip Sidney, an English author. Sidney is included in the Augusta, Maine micropolitan New England...
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created Earl of Essex in 1572. Penelope was a child of twelve when Sir Philip Sidney accompanied her distant cousin Queen Elizabeth I on a visit to Lady...
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An Apology for Poetry (category Works by Philip Sidney)
Defence of Poesy) is a work of literary criticism by Elizabethan poet Philip Sidney. It was written in approximately 1580 and first published in 1595, after...
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painting in the National Portrait Gallery, formerly attributed as Sir Philip Sidney and now thought to depict his brother Robert, is adorned with the phrase...
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Philip Charles Shelley Sidney, 1st Baron De L'Isle and Dudley, GCH (11 March 1800 – 4 March 1851), was a British Tory politician. Sidney was the only son...
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Walter Raleigh, Henry Constable, William Shakespeare, Edward de Vere, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Wootton, William Smith. The most celebrated poem...
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421 at the time of the 2020 census. It is named after English poet Philip Sidney, and many of the city's elementary schools are named after famous writers...
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Brackley, sitting as a Whig, and later in 1705 succeeded his brother, Philip Sidney, as Earl of Leicester. He was a Lord of the Bedchamber, 1717 to 1727...
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Glamorganshire; and in the same year he went with his elder brother, Sir Philip Sidney to the Netherlands, where he served in the war against Spain under Robert...
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Henry Sidney KG (20 July 1529 – 5 May 1586) was an English soldier, politician and Lord Deputy of Ireland. He was the eldest son of Sir William Sidney of...
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January 1555) and their brother-in-law, Henry Sidney, had befriended the incoming Spanish nobles around Philip of Spain, Mary's husband. In December 1554...
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Kingsford, Charles (1891). "Henry V (1387–1422)" . In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 26. London: Smith, Elder...
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indicates the author is listed in multiple subsections. (For example, Philip Sidney appears in four.) Douglas Adams* — The Salmon of Doubt (an incomplete...
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Sir Philip Sidney Stott, 1st Baronet (20 February 1858 – 31 March 1937), usually known by his full name or as Sidney Stott, was an English architect, civil...
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Philip Sidney Smith (28 July 1877 - 10 May 1949) was an American geologist and specialist in the geology of Alaska. On 28 July 1877, Smith was born in...
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Gentleman most worthy of all titles both of learning and chevalrie M. Philip Sidney) was Edmund Spenser's first major poetic work, published in 1579. In...
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (category Works by Philip Sidney)
pastoral romance by Sir Philip Sidney written towards the end of the 16th century. Having finished one version of his text, Sidney later significantly expanded...
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Europe. Oxford University Press. Sidney, Philip (2012). Kuin, Roger (ed.). The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. Thomas...
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