Buckingham and Normanby, John Sheffield, 1st duke of, 3rd Earl Of Mulgrave
- Buckingham and Normanby, John Sheffield, 1st duke of, 3rd Earl Of Mulgrave
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▪ British statesman and author
born April 7, 1648, London, England
died February 24, 1721, London
English statesman, patron of the poet John Dryden (
Dryden, John), and author of poetic essays in heroic couplets.
The son of Edmund, 2nd earl of Mulgrave, he succeeded to the title on his father's death in 1658. He served under
Charles II and was a favourite until 1682, when he incurred Charles's displeasure by courting Princess Anne and was banished from court. He made his peace within two years and on the accession of
James II was again in high favour, receiving appointments first as a privy councillor and later as lord chamberlain.
Despite his acquiescence in the
Glorious Revolution (1688–89) he belonged essentially to the opposition during
William III's reign, but on
Anne's accession in 1702 she made him a member of the Privy Council, and later lord privy seal and duke of Buckingham and Normanby. The Whig ascendancy between 1704 and 1710 compelled him to resign his appointments, but during the period of Tory government between 1710 and 1714 he held several high offices, including that of lord president of the council. After the accession of
George I in 1714 his active political life was at an end.
As a poet, Sheffield is chiefly remembered for
An Essay Upon Poetry (1682) and
An Essay on Satire (circulated in manuscript in 1679 but not published until later).
An Essay Upon Poetry, written in couplets and in a manner intended to resemble that of Horace's
Epistles, aims to delineate the chief characteristics of the various literary kinds: the
ode, the
elegy, the
epic, etc.
An Essay on Satire begins as a critical treatise but develops into a satire, attacking Charles II, the earl of Rochester, and many distinguished courtiers. The work was frequently attributed to Dryden (it appears in most editions of his work, and he was assaulted by hirelings of the earl of Rochester because of it), but it is generally acknowledged to be Sheffield's. It was probably touched up a little by Dryden.
Sheffield's prose Account of the Revolution is interesting historically, although he is not entirely reliable when he is personally concerned.
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