Everything about Henry Sydney 1st Earl Of Romney totally explained
Henry Sydney (or
Sidney),
1st Earl of Romney (
8 April 1641 –
8 April 1704) was born in
Paris, a son of
Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, of
Penshurst Place in
Kent,
England, by Lady Dorothy Percy, a daughter of
Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, a descendant of
Edward III.
Henry was a brother of
Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester, who was born in 1619;
Algernon Sydney, the Republican martyr, who was born at
Penshurst Place in 1622 but was executed, having been found party to the "
Rye House Plot" 1683; and Robert Sidney. His sister was
Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland.
Henry entered
Parliament in 1679 and, as a statesman, was one of the
Immortal Seven (the author of the letter, in fact) to invite the Protestant
William III of Orange to take the throne through the
Glorious Revolution, when King
James II was deposed under legislation passed to exclude Charles II's Catholic brother (the
Duke of York) from the succession. King William created Sydney
Baron Milton and
Viscount Sydney in 1689.
He was present at the
Battle of the Boyne in 1690, and was later to become employed by King William as envoy to the Hague and also served as
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for the period between 1692 and 1693 and was created
Earl of Romney in 1694, but began to lose favour at the court under
Queen Anne.
Henry Sidney served as
Master-General of the Ordnance from 1693 to 1702. Additionally, he was a
Lieutenant-General of the Regiment of the First Foot Guards, (
Grenadier Guards). He employed the Sidney family emblem on prison uniforms, and other government property.
He died unmarried, in London, 'a proud but drunken man' aged 63.
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