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EARL OF See also:HENRY JERMYN See also:DOVER (c. 1636-1708)  , was the second son of See also:Sir See also:Thomas Jermyn, of Rushbroke, See also:Suffolk, See also:elder See also:brother of See also:Henry Jermyn, See also:earl of St Albans (q.v.) . Jermyn surpassed his See also:uncle, St Albans, in reputation for profligacy, figuring frequently as " the little Jermyn " in the See also:Grammont See also:Memoirs, as the See also:lover of See also:Lady See also:Castlemaine, Lady See also:Shrewsbury, See also:Miss Jennings and other beauties of the See also:court of See also:Charles II . He was also a noted duellist and a lifelong gambler . While the court was in See also:exile, he obtained a See also:post in the See also:household of the See also:duke of See also:York, to whom he became See also:master of the See also:horse at the Restoration . Being a See also:Roman See also:Catholic he enjoyed a position of See also:influence with See also:James II., who on his See also:accession raised Jermyn to the See also:peerage as See also:Baron See also:Dover in 1685, and appointed him See also:lieutenant-See also:general of the royal guard in 1686 . At the Revolution, Dover adhered to James, whom he followed abroad, and in See also:July 1689 the deposed See also:sovereign created him Baron Jermyn of See also:Royston, Baron See also:Ipswich, See also:Viscount Cheveley and earl of Dover; these honours being among the " Jacobite peerages " which were not recognized by the See also:English See also:government, though Jermyn became generally known as the earl of Dover . He commanded a See also:troop at the See also:battle of the See also:Boyne; but shortly afterwards made his submission to See also:William III . He succeeded his brother Thomas as 3rd Baron Jermyn of St Edmundsbury in 1703, and died in 1708 . As he See also:left no See also:children by his wife, See also:Judith, daughter of Sir See also:Edmund Poley, of Badley, Suffolk, his titles became See also:extinct at his See also:death . See See also:Samuel See also:Pepys, See also:Diary, edited by H . B . See also:Wheatley, 9 vols .

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London, 1893) ; See also:Anthony See also:Hamilton, Memoirs of Grammont (See also:Bohn edition, London, 1846) ; J . S . See also:Clarke, See also:Life of James II., 2 vols . (London, 1816) ; See also:Narcissus See also:Luttrell, Brief Relation of See also:State Affairs 1678-1714, 6vols . (See also:Oxford, 1857) .

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