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Family and Education
b. 10 Jan. 1619, 1st s. of Robert Sidney, 2nd earl of Leicester, and Dorothy, da. of Henry Percy, 3rd earl of Northumberland; bro. of Algernon Sydney*.CP; Oxford DNB. educ. G. Inn, 12 Aug. 1633;G Inn Admiss. 201. Christ Church, Oxf. 26 July 1634;Al. Ox. accompanied fa. to Denmark and Holstein July-Nov. 1632, and France 1636-41; Academy of Saumur, 1636-8. m. 19 May 1645, Catherine (d. 18 Aug. 1652), da. of William Cecil*, 2nd earl of Salisbury, 3s. (2 d.v.p.), 1 da. (d.v.p.); 1 da. (illegit.) with Grace Saunders formerly Pensar (Pensacke); 1s. 2 da. (illegit.) with Jane Highems formerly Pensar (Pensacke). suc. fa. 2 Nov. 1677, as 3rd earl of Leicester. d. 6 Mar. 1698.CP; Oxford DNB; C10/251/64.
Offices Held

Military: capt. of horse, lifeguard of 4th earl of Northumberland, royal army, 1640-aft. Aug. 1642.E351/293; CSP Dom. 1640–1, pp. 424, 517. Col. of horse, royal army in Ireland, 11 Dec. 1641-Aug. 1643;HMC De L’Isle and Dudley, vi. 419. lt.-gen. c.Sept. 1642–?Aug. 1643.HMC Ormonde, n.s. ii. 200. Col. of horse and ?ft. (parlian.), army in Ireland, c.June 1646-Apr. 1647.CSP Ire. 1633–47, pp. 457, 505.

Central: commr. ct. martial, 16 Aug. 1644.A. and O. Member, cttee. for foreign affairs, 6 Sept. 1644.CJ iii. 618b; LJ vi. 697a. Commr. abuses in heraldry, 19 Mar. 1646.A. and O. Member, Star Chamber cttee. of Irish affairs, 7 May 1646;CJ iv. 532a; LJ viii. 305a. Derby House cttee. of Irish affairs, 12 Oct. 1646, 7 Apr. 1647;CJ iv. 690b, 693b; LJ ix. 127b. cttee. for the revenue, 18 Dec. 1648.CJ vi. 99a; LJ x. 632b. Commr. high ct. of justice, 6 Jan. 1649.A. and O. Cllr. of state, 13 Feb. 1649, 13 Feb. 1650, 14 July, 11 Nov., 16 Dec. 1653.A. and O.; CJ vii. 284b, 344a; TSP i. 642; Woolrych, Commonwealth to Protectorate, 379. Commr. removing obstructions, sale of forfeited estates, 16 July 1651;A. and O. treaty with Utd. Provinces, 14 Mar. 1654.Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iii. 213. Member, cttee. for statutes, Durham Univ. 10 Mar. 1656.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 218.

Irish: ld. lt. 15 Apr. 1646–14 Apr. 1647.C231/6, p. 42.

Local: commr. militia, Kent 2 Dec. 1648, 26 July 1659; Glam. 26 July 1659; assessment, Kent 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 26 Jan. 1660; Glam. 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660.A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). J.p. Surr. 15 Sept. 1653-bef. Mar. 1660;C231/6, p. 266. Glam. 20 Mar. 1656-bef. Oct. 1660;Justices of the Peace ed. Phillips, 303. Kent by June 1656-bef. Oct. 1660.HMC De L’Isle and Dudley, vi. 499. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, Kent., Mon., Surr., S. Wales 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. charitable uses, London Oct. 1655.Publick Intelligencer no. 7 (12–19 Nov. 1655), 97–8 (E.489.15). Custos rot. Kent c.June 1656-bef. Mar. 1660.HMC De L’Isle and Dudley, vi. 499. Commr. sewers, Kent and Suss. 4 Oct. 1660.C181/7, p. 60.

Parlimentarian
SIDNEY, Philip, Visct. Lisle (1619-98), of Penshurst Place, Kent, and West Sheen, Surr.
: Visct. Lisle (1619-98), of Penshurst Place, Kent 1619 – 98 and Surr., West Sheen.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, P. Lely, c.1646;Whereabouts unknown. oil on canvas, aft. P. Lely;Whereabouts unknown. ?oil on canvas, studio of P. Lely;Althorp, Northants. oil on canvas, G. Kneller, 1685.Viscount D’Lisle colln.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

SIDNEY, Philip, Visct. Lisle (1619-98), of Penshurst Place, Kent, and West Sheen, Surr.

Will
31 Mar. 1684 (codicils, 6 July 1691-2 Mar. 1698), pr. 26 Mar. 1698.Add. 32683, ff. 120-146; PROB11/444/370.
Estates
allowance of £800 p.a. from fa. paid from 1645, reduced to £600 from 1652;J. Scott, Algernon Sidney and the English Republic (Cambridge, 1988), 61n. acquired lands in Wales (Glam.), on m. in 1645;Add. 32680, f. 2; A. and O. received £10 a day as ld. lt. of Ireland, 1646-7;CSP Ire., 1633-47, p. 586. received £1,000 p.a. as cllr. of state, Feb. 1649-May 1659; purchased estate at West Sheen, Surr. 1650.H. Maddicott, ‘A Collection of the Interregnum Period’, Jnl. of the Hist. of Collecting xi. 4.
Oxford 1644
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