CREST The Family tree of the Penshurst Sidney Family
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The Sidneys before Penshurst
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Nicolas Sidney   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)
 Anne Pakenham
Sir Henry Sidney
KG (1529 - 1586)
Lady Mary Dudley Lady Frances Sidney
Countess of Sussex
( - 1589)
m Thomas Radcliffe
Earl of Sussex
Sir Philip Sidney
Poet, MP & courtier
(1554 - 1586)
Frances Walsingham
Daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham.
Sir Robert Sidney
1st Earl of Leicester
KG (1563 - 1626)
Barbara Gamage Lady Mary Sidney
Poet & Translater
(1564 - 1621)
m Henry Herbert 
2nd Earl of Pembroke
Elizabeth Sidney
(???? - ????)
William Sidney? Robert Sidney
2nd Earl of Leicester
(1595 - 1677)
Lady Dorothy Percy Lady Mary Sidney
Authoress
m Sir Robert Wroth
Algernon Sidney
(1622 - 1683)
Henry Sidney
Earl of Romney
(1641 - 1704)
d.s.p
Philip Sidney
3rd Earl of Leicester
(1619 - 1698)
Lady Catherine Cecil Robert Sidney
(???? - ????)
Lady Dorothy Sidney
"Sacharissa"
1st Earl of Sunderland
Robert Sidney
4th Earl of Leicester
(1649 - 1702)
Lady Elizabeth Egerton The Spencer and Churchill families.
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)
d.s.p
m Elizabeth Thomas
Elizabeth Sidney
(1713 - 1781)
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.
Elizabeth Jane Perry [2]  Sir Bysshe Shelley  [1] Mary Mitchell
Sir John Shelley-Sidney
1st Baronet Penshurst
(1771 - 1849)
Henrietta Hunloke Sir Timothy Shelley
2nd Baronet of Castle Goring
Elizabeth Pilfold
Philip Sidney
1st Lord De L'Isle and Dudley
(1800 - 1851)
Lady Sophia FitzClarence
Daughter of Duke of Clarence
(William IV)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Poet 
Philip Sidney
2nd Lord De L'Isle and Dudley
(1828 - 1898)
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. 
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)
Winifred Bevan
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.
William Sidney 
1st Viscount De L'Isle, VC, KG
(1909 - 1991)
m [2] Margaret Shoubridge
Lady Glenusk
Philip Sidney 
2nd Viscount De L'Isle, MBE
(b.1945)
m Isobel Compton

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