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The Sidney Family Tree (1200 - 1500) |
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Anne Brandon | The
line of succession shown in Bold type. Sir Philip Sidney died
shortly after his father so never inherited Penshurst.
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| Sir William Sidney
(1482 - 1554) |
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| Sir Henry Sidney
KG (1529 - 1586) |
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Lady Mary Dudley | Lady Frances Sidney
Countess of Sussex ( - 1589) |
m | Thomas Radcliffe
Earl of Sussex |
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| Sir Philip
Sidney
Poet, MP & courtier (1554 - 1586) |
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Frances Walsingham
Daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham. |
Sir Robert Sidney
1st Earl of Leicester KG (1563 - 1626) |
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Barbara Gamage | Lady Mary Sidney
Poet & Translater (1564 - 1621) |
m | Henry Herbert
2nd Earl of Pembroke |
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| Elizabeth Sidney | William Sidney? | Robert Sidney
2nd Earl of Leicester (1595 - 1677) |
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Lady Dorothy Percy | Lady Mary Sidney
Authoress |
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| Algernon Sidney
(1622 - 1683) |
Henry Sidney
Earl of Romney (1641 - 1704) d.s.p |
Philip Sidney
3rd Earl of Leicester (1619 - 1698) |
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Lady Catherine Cecil | Robert Sidney | Lady Dorothy Sidney
"Sacharissa" |
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| Robert Sidney
4th Earl of Leicester (1649 - 1702) |
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| Thomas Sidney | |
Mary Reeve | Philip Sidney
5th Earl of Leicester (1676 - 1705) |
m | Anne Reeve | John Sidney
6th Earl of Leicester (1680 - 1737) d.unm |
Jocelyn Sidney
7th (and last) Earl of Leicester (1684 - 1743) |
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| Elizabeth Sidney
(1713 - 1781) |
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William Perry | Mary Sidney
(1711 - 1758) d.s.p |
m | Sir Brownlow Sherard | Notice here how the direct male line is lost and the name is changed back to Sidney over three generations. Sir Bysshe Shelley is decended from one of the grand-daughters of Sir William Sidney who married John Shelley so there is some justification for this. The decendents of Jocelyn Sidney | ||||||
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| Elizabeth Jane Perry [2] | |
Sir Bysshe Shelley | |
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| Sir John Shelley-Sidney
1st Baronet Penshurst (1771 - 1849) |
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Henrietta Hunloke | Sir Timothy Shelley
2nd Baronet of Castle Goring |
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| Philip Sidney
1st Lord De L'Isle and Dudley (1800 - 1851) |
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Lady Sophia FitzClarence
Daughter of Duke of Clarence (William IV) |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Poet |
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| Philip Sidney
2nd Lord De L'Isle and Dudley (1828 - 1898) |
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Mary Foulis | Percy Bysshe Shelley is just one of the poets with Penshurst associations. Fulke Greville, Edward Dyer and Edmund Spencer were all influenced by Sir Philip Sidney as was Shelley himself. Edmund Waller wrote poetry for Lady Dorothy Sidney "Sacharissa" during his attempt to get her to marry him. | |||||||||
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| Philip Sidney
3rd Lord De L'Isle and Dudley (1853 - 1922) d.s.p |
m | Elizabeth Gort
Daughter of Viscount Gort. |
Algernon Sidney
4th Lord De L'Isle and Dudley (1854 - 1945) d.unm |
William Sidney
5th Lord De L'Isle and Dudley (1859 - 1945) |
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| The Victoria Cross is Britain's highest military medal and has been awarded to both Major WP Sidney (Italy 1944) and his father-in-law, Cpt. JSSPV Viscount Gort (France 1918) who were both in the grenadier Guards. William was also the first Knight of the Garter in the Sidney family since Robert Sidney (1563 - 1626). | Jacqueline Gort [1]
Daughter of Viscount Gort, V.C. |
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William Sidney
1st Viscount De L'Isle, VC, KG (1909 - 1991) |
m | [2] Margaret Shoubridge
Lady Glenusk |
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| Philip Sidney
2nd Viscount De L'Isle, MBE (b.1945) |
m | Isobel Compton | ||||||||||
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