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4 giorni fa · LEICESTER SQUARE, ABOUT 1750. Leicester House was the abode of the Sidneys—that noble family of which, in the sixteenth century, Sir Henry Sidney, "the wisest, greatest, and justest Lord-Deputy Ireland ever had," and his more famous son Philip, were the great ornaments.
3 giorni fa · The friend of Algernon Sidney and Lord William Russell, he sat in seven Parliaments as representative of the City; was more than thirty years alderman of Cheap Ward, and ultimately father of the City; the mover of the celebrated Exclusion Bill (seconded by Lord William Russell); and eminent alike as a patriot, a statesman, and a citizen.
21 ore fa · Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government. John Locke – Two Treatises of Civil Government (1689) Theophilus Parsons – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (23 Jan 1788)
3 giorni fa · Resolved, That the Election of the said Borough of Agmondesham, as to Sir William Drake, and Algernon Sidney Esquire, is void. The First of the said Resolves being read a Second time to the House; And a Debate arising thereupon;
2 giorni fa · The Roman Villa in Cobham Park, near Rochester. Next. Next. Broomwood Bronze Age Settlement-St. Paul's Cray, Kent. Kent Archaeological Society. Registered Charity 1176989
3 giorni fa · John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including twelve books, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.
4 giorni fa · In 1683 government informants named the earl of Essex, Lord William Russell, and Algernon Sidney as conspirators in the Rye House Plot, a plan to assassinate the king. Though the evidence was flimsy, Russell and Sidney were executed and Essex took his own life.
