Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton

(1573-1624)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, Earl of, 1573-1624 NRA: Wriothesley Henry (1573-1624) 3rd Earl of Southampton DNB: Wriothesley, Henry, third earl of Southampton (1573–1624), courtier and literary patron LBT ID: LdSouth3a VIAF ID: 35252941 LOC ID: n50071259	B/BAP: 1573-10-06 DIED: 1624-11-10
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Elizabethan courtier; he was the patron of Shakespeare and an associate of the Earl of Essex.
REFERENCES TO Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton: 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and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Laman Blanchard VIII Found 1: ¶ 8 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a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) Chapter XIV Found 1: ¶ 14