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SIR HENRY SIDNEY (1529-1586)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 43 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:HENRY See also:SIDNEY (1529-1586)  , See also:lord See also:deputy of See also:Ireland, was the eldest son of See also:Sir See also:William See also:Sidney, a prominent politician and courtier in the reigns of See also:Henry VIII. and See also:Edward VI., from both of whom he received extensive grants of See also:land, including the See also:manor of See also:Penshurst in See also:Kent, which became the See also:principal See also:residence of the See also:family . Henry was brought up at See also:court as the See also:companion of See also:Prince Edward, afterwards See also:King Edward VI.; and he continued to enjoy the favour of the See also:sovereign throughout the reigns of Edward and See also:Mary . In 1556 he went to Ireland with the lord deputy, the See also:earl of See also:Sussex, who in the previous See also:year had married his See also:sister Frances Sidney; and from the first he had a large See also:share in the See also:administration of the See also:country, especially in the military See also:measures taken by his See also:brother-in-See also:law for bringing the native Irish chieftains into submission to the See also:English See also:Crown . In the course of the lord deputy's See also:Ulster expedition in 1557 Sidney devastated the See also:island of Rathlin; and during the See also:absence of Sussex in See also:England in the following year Sidney was charged with the See also:sole responsibility for the See also:government of Ireland, which he conducted with marked ability and success . A second absence of the lord deputy from Ireland, occasioned by the See also:accession of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth, threw the See also:chief See also:control into Sidney's hands at the outbreak of trouble with See also:Shane O'See also:Neill, and he displayed See also:great skill in temporizing with that See also:Robert Sidney, 1st earl of See also:Leicester (q.v.); his daughter Mary married Henry See also:Herbert, 2nd earl of See also:Pembroke, and by See also:reason of her association with her brother See also:Philip was one of the most celebrated See also:women of her See also:time (see PEMBROKE, EARLS OF) . See See also:Calendar of See also:State Papers See also:relating to Ireland, Henry VIII.-Elizabeth; Calendar of the See also:Carew See also:MSS.; J . O'See also:Donovan's edition of The See also:Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters (7 vols., See also:Dublin, 1851) See also:Holinshed's See also:Chronicles, vol. iii . (6 vols., See also:London, 18o7); See also:Richard Bagwell, Ireland under the Tudors (3 vols., London, 1885) ; Calendar of See also:Ancient Records of Dublin, edited by Sir J . T . See also:Gilbert, vols. i. and ii . (Dublin, 1889) ; Sir J . T .

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History of the Viceroys of Ireland (Dublin, 1865); J . A . See also:Froude, History of England (12 vols., London, 1856-187o) . (R . J .

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