Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex

(1565-1601)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601 NRA: Devereux, Robert (1566-1601) 2nd Earl of Essex, statesman DNB: Devereux, Robert, second earl of Essex (1565-1601), soldier and politician LBT ID: LdEssex2 VIAF ID: 69085081 LOC ID: n50043337	B/BAP: 1565-11-10 DIED: 1601-02-25
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The sometimes favourite of Queen Elizabeth who after an unsuccessful campaign in Ireland initiated a rebellion and was executed for treason.
REFERENCES TO Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex: Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 20 December 1831 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to John May, 30 January 1836 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 7 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXXVI. 1834-1836 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward III Lady Morgan to Sir Malby Crofton, 5 March 1856 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 1 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXXVII