Sir Philip Sidney

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30 November 1554

SPS , poet, fiction-writer, critic, and elder brother of Mary, Countess of Pembroke , was born at Penshurst Place, near Tonbridge in Kent, the eldest in his family of seven children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

22 September 1586

SPS was wounded in a skirmish between English and Spanish forces at Zutphen in the Low Countries. Shot in the leg, he developed gangrene and died on 17 October at nearby Arnhem.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

30 November 1554

SPS , poet, fiction-writer, critic, and elder brother of Mary, Countess of Pembroke , was born at Penshurst Place, near Tonbridge in Kent, the eldest in his family of seven children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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