B50180-Sidney,-or-Sydney

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Name of the family:

Sidney, or Sydney

Blason:

Or, a pheon az.

Crest(s):

A porcupine az. quilled, collared, and chained or.

Supporters:

Dexter, a lion az. collared and chained or, ducally crowned per pale ar. and gu.; sinister, a lion guard. ar. ducally crowned or.

Motto:

Quo fata vocant.

Info about the family:

Earl of Leicester, extinct 1743; descended from Sir William Sidney, Chamberlain to Henry II., with whom he came from Anjou. Sir Robert Sidney, K.G., brother of the accomplished Sir Philip Sidney, was raised to the peerage as Baron Penshurst 1603, created Viscount L'lsle 1604, and Earl of Leicester 1618. Robert, fourth Earl of Leicester, had four sons, three of whom inherited the honours, but d.s.p.; the fourth son, the Hon. Thomas Sidney, had two daus. his co-heirs, viz. I. Mary, m. Sir Brownlow Sherard, Bart., and d.s.p. ; II. Elizabeth, eventually sole heiress to Penshurst and the Sidney estates, m. William Perry, Esq., of Wormington, co. Gloucester, and had an only dau. and heir. Elizabeth Jane Sidney, m. as second wife, Sir Bysshe Shelley, Bart., of Castle Goring, and was mother of Sir John Shelley-Sidney, Bart., of Penshurst. whose eldest son was created lord de L'lsle and Dudley

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