Leicester, Robert Sidney, 1st earl of
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▪ British soldier and politician
born Nov. 19, 1563, Penshurst, Kent, Eng.
died July 13, 1626, Penshurst
soldier, diplomatist, and patron of literature, younger brother of Sir Philip Sidney and second son of Sir Henry Sidney, English lord deputy in Ireland.
Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, he travelled on the Continent during most of the period 1578–83. In 1585 he entered Parliament, and from 1585 to 1587 he fought against Spain in the Netherlands under his uncle, Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester. He was knighted in 1586.
Appointed governor of Flushing, Sidney returned to the Netherlands in 1590 and for the next two years saw active service with Maurice of Nassau and Sir Francis Vere. After a diplomatic mission to France in 1593–94, he went to the Netherlands once more, where he fought in the Battle of Turnhout (1598).
On the accession of King James I (1603), Sidney returned to England. James at once created him Baron Sidney of Penshurst and appointed him chamberlain to the queen consort. In 1605 Sidney was created Viscount Lisle and, in 1618, earl of Leicester, that title having become extinct in 1588 on the death of his uncle, whose property he had inherited. His cultured life at Penshurst was celebrated in verse by Ben Jonson.
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