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    Algernon Sidney or Sydney (15 January 1623 – 7 December 1683) was an English politician, republican political theorist and colonel. A member of the middle...
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  • Algernon Sidney Buford (January 2, 1826 – May 6, 1911) was a Virginian businessman, politician, and lawyer best known for his 22-year presidency of the...
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  • Algernon Sidney Crapsey (1847–1927) was an American Episcopal clergyman who in 1906 was defrocked after a celebrated heresy trial. Algernon Sidney Crapsey...
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    (1853–1922) Algernon Sidney, 4th Baron De L'Isle and Dudley (1854–1945) William Sidney, 5th Baron De L'Isle and Dudley (1859–1945) William Philip Sidney, 6th...
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    manuscript written in the early 1680s by the English Whig activist Algernon Sidney who was executed on a treason charge in 1683. It is one of the treatises...
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  • diplomat Algernon Fuller (1885–1970), British Army officer and inventor Algernon Charles Gifford (1861–1948), New Zealand astronomer Algernon Sidney Gilbert...
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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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    Algernon Sidney Paddock (November 9, 1830 – October 17, 1897) was an American politician who was a Republican secretary of Nebraska Territory and U.S...
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  • the American Revolution due to admiration for the English politician Algernon Sidney as a martyr to royal tyranny; since its peak in the 1910s its usage...
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  • Algernon Sidney Gilbert (December 28, 1789 – June 29, 1834) was a merchant best known for his involvement with Latter-day Saint history and his partnership...
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    (Cutler) Sullivan. He was named in honor of the British politician, Algernon Sidney. His father was a lawyer, held the rank of Major in the War of 1812...
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  • Algernon Sidney Gray (8 January 1814 – 29 September 1878) was an attorney, colonel in the antebellum Virginia militia (Rockingham County), delegate to...
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    Benjamin Franklin, the modern English wording appears earlier in Algernon Sidney's work. A humorous addition to the saying has, "God helps those who...
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    assassination, aligning much of the West group's discussion with the plans of Algernon Sidney, in particular, and the more aristocratic country party members making...
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  • § "H. Algernon Sidney (1622–1683)", cites Jonathan Scott’ Algernon Sidney and the English Republic, 1623–1677 (1988): "Scott shows that 'Sidney not only...
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    Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury. Henry Sidney, 1st Earl of Romney (1641–1704); died unmarried and without issue. Algernon (1622/3–1683); executed for his share...
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  • the surname Sidney: Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1595–1677) The republican Algernon Sidney (1623–1683) was a son of Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of...
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    O. Henry (redirect from Sidney Porter)
    the spelling of his middle name to Sydney in 1898. His parents were Algernon Sidney Porter (1825–88), a physician, and Mary Jane Virginia Swaim Porter...
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    liberty." It was written c. 1660 by the English soldier-statesman Algernon Sidney, who was an opponent of Charles II and who was later executed for treason...
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    aristocrats there. She briefly became the mistress of Robert Sidney, brother of Algernon Sidney. In May 1648, Walter managed to meet and charm Prince Charles...
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    was the target of numerous Whig attempts at rebuttal, including Algernon Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government, James Tyrrell's Patriarcha Non Monarcha...
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  • Algernon Sydney Thelwall (1795 in Newchurch, Isle of Wight – 1863, in St Giles, London) was an evangelical Church of England clergyman and teacher of elocution...
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    in 1902. Algernon Sidney, 4th Baron De L'Isle and Dudley (1854–1945), who served in the 2nd Boer War and died unmarried. Hon. Henry Sidney (1858–1896)...
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  • being implicated, fled to and regrouped in the United Provinces. Algernon Sidney, Sir Thomas Armstrong and William Russell, Lord Russell, were executed...
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    proposed his title to be Baron Sidney, in honour of his kinsman, the renowned opponent of royal tyranny, Algernon Sidney, however he was worried that other...
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    important figures in this endeavour, for example Bodin, Francis Bacon, Algernon Sidney, Harrington, John Milton, Spinoza, Rousseau, Hume, Edward Gibbon, and...
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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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    connecting Charlotte, North Carolina, with Atlanta. Buford was named after Algernon Sidney Buford, who at the time was president of the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line...
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    leader of the New Orleans crime family from the 1920s to the 1940s. Algernon Sidney Badger, New Orleans government official during and after Reconstruction...
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  • success, and King Charles I was executed. In England James Harrington, Algernon Sidney, and John Milton became some of the first writers to argue for rejecting...
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