Philip Sidney
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Sir Philip Sidney was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age.
Sir Philip Sidney, after Antonis Mor
Frances Walsingham, attributed to Robert Peake, 1594
Memorial for Sir Philip Sidney at the spot where he was fatally injured
The funeral of Sir Philip Sidney, 1586
Henry Sidney
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Sir Henry Sidney was an English soldier, politician and Lord Deputy of Ireland. Instrumental in the Tudor conquest of Ireland, his attempts to consolidate English power in Ireland were a major contrib
Philip Sidney
…funeral procession in London was one of the most lavish ever seen. Born at Penshurst Place, Kent, of an aristocratic family, he was the eldest son of Sir Henry Sidney and Lady Mary Dudley. His mother was the eldest daughter of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and the sister of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of…
Portrait by Arnold Bronckorst, 1573
Sir Henry Sidney sets out from Dublin Castle. Detail from a plate in The Image of Irelande, by John Derrick (London, 1581).
Sidney and the English army on the march with standards and trumpets, from The Image of Irelande, 1581