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Sedley and his brothers were too young to take part in the Civil War; but their mother’s royalist sympathies were well known, the family was harassed by the committee for the advance of money, and Sedley himself was regarded with suspicion by the republican regime, especially after his marriage to a Roman Catholic. After the Restoration he became prominent at Court as wit, dramatist and ...
Charles Sedley. Born. Kent, The United Kingdom. Died. August 20, 1701. edit data. born March 1639. Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet was an English wit, dramatist, politician, poet and translator, ending his career as Speaker of the House of Commons.
Sir Charles Sedley, 2nd Baronet (c. 1721 – 23 August 1778), was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1747 and 1778. [1] Early life [ edit ]
Sir Charles Sedley Biography. Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet was an English poet, translator, playwright and wit who was also a well-known patron of the arts and literature during the Restoration period. He was much admired amongst other writers. He also served as a Member of Parliament. He was born sometime during March 1639 into a prominent ...
Sedley was returned for Nottingham in 1747 as a Tory. He did not stand in 1754. About his candidature in 1774, on what was formerly the Tory interest, he wrote to Rockingham on 9 Oct.: 1. I found my friends very much displeased and dissatisfied that they had never been consulted or taken the least notice of in respect to the choice of a proper ...
Sedley’s will confirmed the settlement, made in September 1699, of his estate on his son, Charles, and on his son’s heirs. His great-grandson, Sir Charles Sedley, 2nd Bt., sat for Nottingham during the reigns of George II and George III.16. Ref Volumes: 1690-1715 Author: Sonya Wynne. Notes
Sir Charles Sedley — reputedly one of the wittiest (as well as one of the most scandalous) of the Restoration courtiers — has left a body of plays, poems and other works, none of which, however, is known to survive in his own hand. Unlike his equally notorious crony the Earl of Rochester, there is no evidence of an especially wide circulation in manuscript of any of the works attributed to ...
