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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Mary Sidney's father, Sir Henry Sidney
, was Lord President of the Council of the Marches of Wales when she was born.
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He later became Lord Deputy of Ireland. The Sidneys (the family whom...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sir Philip Sidney
His mother, Lady Mary Sidney
, was a duke's daughter and sister of two brothers who became earls (one of them, Robert Dudley
, the Earl of Leicester and the favourite of Queen Elizabeth
)...