Algernon Sidney

Standard Name: Sidney, Algernon

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
death	Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland	DSCS died three months after her brother Algernon 's execution. The exact date and cause of her death are not known. Ady, Julia Cartwright. Sacharissa. 3rd ed., Seeley, 1901. 305 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships	Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland	Dorothy's four surviving brothers adhered to different parts of their father's divided loyalties. Philip , the eldest (and heir to the title although he quarrelled bitterly with his father), fought on the parliamentarian side in...
Family and Intimate relationships	Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland	During the English Civil War, DSCS had close relatives on both sides of the conflict. Her husband supported the royalist cause, fought, and ultimately died for it. He also gave Charles I a loan...
Intertextuality and Influence	Catharine Macaulay	By undertaking archival work in seventeenth-century pamphlets, CM set out to ensure that her history should surpass that of Hume (who was generally regarded as a Tory historian, though he was ambivalent about this label)...
Residence	Edna Lyall	EL moved from Lincoln to Eastbourne in 1884 Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co., 1904. 53 with her sister and her brother-in-law the Rev. Hampden Jameson . Their house in College Road, Eastbourne, was a picturesque gabled, red-tiled house, covered with...
Textual Features	Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire	The feelings of this Emma are all in extremes. During her early passion she quotes Frances Greville on the pains of sensibility. Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of. Emma. T. Hookham, 1773, 3 vols. 1: 66 She and her father kneel alternately to each other when she...
Textual Features	Isabella Neil Harwood	In the play Lord Russell is first seen as he hears the news that the King has dissolved the parliament: he has Quite broken with his people, and to govern / Must needs oppress them...
Textual Features	Edna Lyall	Mondisfield Hall, depicted here as it was during the Restoration, is based on Badmondisfield (or Badmondesfield) Hall, an Elizabethan moated manor at Wickhambrook in Suffolk, where as a girl EL used to stay with...

Timeline

13 July 1683

William, Lord Russell (husband of the letter-writer Lady Rachel ), stood trial for High Treason, accused of planning to assassinate the king in an alleged Protestant Plot.

Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.

747-8

21 July 1683

William, Lord Russell , husband of the letter-writer Lady Rachel Russell , was beheaded in Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.

750, 761

7 December 1683

Months after the execution of William, Lord Russell (husband of Lady Rachel ), Algernon Sidney met the same fate (after a search of his private papers), charged with Protestant extremism and plotting against the crown.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

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