Catharine Sedley, countess of Dorchester

(1657-1717)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Dorchester, Catherine Sedley, Countess of, 1657-1717 NRA: Sedley Sir Charles (? 1639-1701) Knight Wit and Dramatist DNB: Sedley, Catharine, suo jure countess of Dorchester, and countess of Portmore (1657–1717), royal mistress LBT ID: CaSedle1717 VIAF ID: 61492764 LOC ID: nr2003039951	B/BAP: 1657-12-21 DIED: 1717-10-26
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The daughter of Sir Charles Sedley, she was the mistress of James II; her daughter married John Sheffield, first duke of Buckingham and Normanby.
REFERENCES TO Catharine Sedley, countess of Dorchester: 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and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 16 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward III