THE

CABINET PORTRAIT GALLERY

OF

BRITISH WORTHIES.

VOLUME IX.

LONDON:

CHARLES KNIGHT & CO., LUDGATE STREET,

1846.

London: Printed by W. CLOWES and SONS, Stamford Street.

ALGERNON SIDNEY, or SYDNEY, famed as one of the stanchest of modern republicans, came partly of the same stock as the very loyal and poetical Sir Philip Sidney, that ornament of the Elizabethan age. Algernon was the second surviving son of Robert, second Earl of Leicester of that creation, and of his wife Dorothy, eldest daughter of Henry Earl of Northumberland. Neither the place nor the date of his birth is mentioned; but he is supposed to have been born in the year 1621 or 1622, towards the close of the reign of James I., and

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