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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 781 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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UNTON (or UMPTON),
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SIR HENRY (c. 1557-1596)
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English diplomatist, was the second son of
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Sir
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Edward Unton, or Umpton (d . 1583), of Wadley, near
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Faringdon, Berkshire, his
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mother, Anne (d . 1588), being a daughter of Edward Seymour, duke of Somerset, the
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protector . Educated at Oriel College, Oxford, Unton became a member of parliament in 1584 and served with the English forces in the
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Netherlands in 1585 and 1586, being
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present at the skirmish of Zutphen . In 1586 he was knighted . In 1591, through the good offices of the
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earl of Essex, Unton was sent as ambassador to Henry IV. of France; he became very friendly with this king and accompanied him on a
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campaign in
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Normandy before he was recalled to England in
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June 1592 . Again securing a seat in parliament he lost for a short time the favour of Queen Elizabeth; however, in 1593 he went again as ambassador to France . He died in the French camp at La Fere on the 23rd of March 1596, a collection of Latin verses being published in his memory at Oxford later in the
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year . This was edited by his
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chaplain, Robert Wright (1560-1643), afterwards bishop of
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Lichfield and Coventry . There is an interesting picture in the
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National Portrait Gallery re-presenting Unton and various scenes in his
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life . Many of his official letters are in the
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British Museum and in the Public Record Office,
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London . A collection of these was edited by Joseph Stevenson (1847), and some are printed in W .

Murdiu's

Burghley Papers (1759) .

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