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 1583 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
December 17 - Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey, English adventurer and soldier (killed in battle) (d.
George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich, English soldier (died 1663)
June 9 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1525)
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 Earl of Oxford and the Order of the Garter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Sussex was the military commander of Portsmouth, and he emptied his magazines to replenish the English fleet with powder and shot during the Armada fight the previous year.
Between his election as KG and his installation, Sussex wrote a letter to the Queen explaining that his inherited estate yielded but 450 pounds per year, while he owed her a debt of 500 pounds per year.
One of the remaining ten, the fifth Earl of Derby, died a few months after inheriting his title, and there was no election during his short period as an earl.
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 History of Tudhoe Village: Dissent and Rebellion in County Durham
Meanwhile, the Catholic Earls of Westmorland, Charles Neville, and Northumberland, Thomas Percy, were planning a revolt in the North, possibly with the connivance and certainly with the knowledge of Norfolk (who was also the brother of Neville's wife Jane, Countess of Westmorland).
The Earl of Sussex, in York, was loyal to the Queen but was powerless to act without reinforcements from the South.
Sussex dared not march north to relieve Sir George until he was assured that the southern army under Lord Warwick and the Lord Admiral was at his back.
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 Chapter 5 - The Business of Slavery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
This William Herbert was father of Henry Herbert (1534-1600), second earl Pembroke, who married a third wife, Mary Sydney, daughter of a "henchman" of Henry VIII, Henry Sydney, president of the Council of Wales.
Dee was once introduced into royal presence by William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, a grandmaster of Freemasons and a son of Mary Sidney; and the Earl of Leicester, Lord Robert Dudley.
Robert Rich, first earl Warwick, (1559-1618), whose son Robert (1587-1658), the second Earl of Warwick was to become an extraordinarily influential figure in promoting both privateering provocation of the Spanish, and Caribbean and North American trade.
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 Online 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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SUSSEX, THOMAS RADCLYFFE [or RATCLYFFE], 3RD EARL OF (c.
SUTTEE (an English corruption of Sanskrit sail, " good woman " or true " wife ")
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 Bertrand Russell
(1931) Becomes the third Earl Russell upon the death of his brother.
Russell also ran unsuccessfully for Parliament (in 1907, 1922, and 1923) and, together with his second wife, founded and operated an experimental school during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Although he became the third Earl Russell upon the death of his brother in 1931, Russell's radicalism continued to make him a controversial figure well through middle-age.
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