Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet (March 1639 – August 20, 1701), was an English wit, dramatist and politician. Events 636 - Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama.

Sedley was the son of Sir John Sedley, 4th Baronet, of Aylesford in Kent, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Savile. Aylesford is a large village on the River Medway in Kent, 4 miles NW of Maidstone in England. KENT (1400 AM) is a Radio station broadcasting a Adult Standards/MOR format Sir Henry Savile ( November 30 1549 – February 19, 1622) Warden of Merton College Oxford, and Provost of Eton, was the The Sedleys (also sometimes spelled Sidley) had been prominent in Kent since at least 1337. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, but left without taking a degree. Wadham College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, located at the southern end of Parks Road Sedley is famous as a patron of literature in the Restoration period, and was the Lisideius of Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy. Restoration comedy is the name given to English comedies written and performed in the Restoration period from 1660 to 1710 John Dryden (– was an influential English poet Literary critic, Translator and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England His most famous song, Phyllis is my only joy, is much more widely known now than the author's name.

His first comedy, The Mulberry Garden (1668), hardly sustains Sedley's contemporary reputation for wit in conversation. The best, but most licentious, of his comedies is Bellamira; or The Mistress (1687), an imitation of the Eunuchus of Terence, in which the heroine is supposed to represent the duchess of Cleveland, the mistress of Charles II. Publius Terentius Afer (195/185&ndash159 BC better known as Terence, was a Playwright of the Roman Republic. Charles II (Charles Stuart 29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685 was the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. His two tragedies, Antony and Cleopatra (1667) and The Tyrant King of Crete (1702), an adaptation of Henry Killigrew's Pallantus and Eudora, have little merit. Dr Henry Killigrew (1613-1700 was the fifth and youngest son of Robert Killigrew and his wife Mary He also produced The Grumbler (1702), an adaptation of Le Grondeur of Brueys and Palaprat.

In 1663 an indecent frolic in Bow Street, for which he was heavily fined, made Sedley notorious. He was member of parliament for New Romney in Kent, and took an active and useful part in politics. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. New Romney is a small town in Kent, England, on the edge of Romney Marsh an area of flat rich agricultural land reclaimed from the sea A speech of his on the civil list after the Revolution is cited by Macaulay as a proof that his reputation as a man of wit and ability was deserved. The term " English Revolution " refers to the period of the English Civil Wars and Commonwealth period 1640-1660 in which Parliament challenged King Charles His bon mot at the expense of James II is well known. James II of England and Ireland James VII of Scotland (14 October 1633 &ndash 16 September 1701 was King of England, King of Scots, Later that same year James The king had seduced his daughter and created her countess of Dorchester, whereupon Sedley said: "As the king has made my daughter a countess, the least I can do, in common gratitude, is to assist in making his Majesty's daughter a queen".

By his first wife Lady Catherine Savage, daughter of John, 2nd Earl Rivers he had an only legitimate child, Catherine, Countess of Dorchester, mistress of James II. Earl Rivers was an English title held in succession by the families of Woodville or Wydeville Darcy and Savage. Also including Sedley's daughter Lady Catherine Darnley Catherine Sedley Countess of Dorchester Countess of Portmore (c He married (bigamously) Catherine Ayscough, by whom he had a son, Charles Sedley.

See The Works of Sir Charles Sedley in Prose and Verse (1778), with a slight notice of the author. For a modern edition of Sedley's comedies, see: Holger Hanowell, "Sir Charles Sedley's 'The Mulberry-Garden' (1668) and 'Bellamira: or, The Mistress' (1687). An Old-Spelling Critical Edition with an Introduction and a Commentary" (Peter Lang: Frankfurt a. M. 2001).

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• Leigh Rayment's Baronetage Page.
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs.

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