Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester

(1533-1588)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 1532?-1588 NRA: Dudley, Robert (1532-1588) Earl of Leicester DNB: Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester (1532/3-1588), courtier and magnate LBT ID: LdLeice VIAF ID: 52588603 LOC ID: n50048266	B/BAP: 1533-06-24 DIED: 1588-09-04
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The favorite of Queen Elizabeth and subject of Walter Scott's historical novel Kennilworth.
REFERENCES TO Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester: William Godwin to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 17 June 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 19 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and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 15 Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 20 December 1831 in My Friends and Acquaintance: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and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 2 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Family History Found 1: ¶ 6 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and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward III Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 2 Found 1: ¶ 31 Chapter III Found 1: ¶ 19 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1797 L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 7