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See also:ESSEX, See also:WALTER DEVEREUX, IST2 See also:EARL OF (1541–1576) , the eldest son of See also:Sir See also:Richard Devereux, was See also:born in 1541. His grandfather was the and See also:Baron See also:Ferrers, who was created See also:Viscount See also:Hereford in 155o and by his mc•ther was a See also:nephew of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Bourchier, a former earl of Essex. Walter Devereux succeeded as and Viscount Hereford in 1558, and in 1561 or 1562 married Lettice, daughter of Sir See also:Francis See also:Knollys. In 1569 he served as high See also:marshal of the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field under the earl of See also:Warwick and See also:Lord See also:Clinton, and materially assisted them in suppressing the See also:northern insurrection. For his zeal in the service of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth on this and other occasions, he in 1572 received the Garter and was created earl of Essex, the See also:title which formerly belonged to the Bourchier See also:family. Eager to give See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of " his See also:good devotion to employ himself in the service of her. See also:majesty," he offered on certain conditions to subdue and colonize, at his own expense, a portion of the Irish See also:province of See also:Ulster, at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time completely under the dominion of the See also:rebel O'Neills, under Sir See also:Brian MacPhelim and Tirlogh Luineach, with the Scots under their See also:leader Sorley Boy See also:MacDonnell. His offer, with certain modifications, was accepted, and he set See also:sail for See also:Ireland in See also:July 1573, accompanied by a number of earls, knights and gentlemen, and with a force of about 1200 men. The beginning of his enterprise was inauspicious, for on See also:account of a See also:storm which dispersed his See also:fleet and drove some of his vessels as far as See also:Cork and the Isle of See also:Man, his forces did not all reach the See also:place of See also:rendezvous till See also:late in the autumn, and he was compelled to entrench himself at See also:Belfast for the See also:winter. Here, by sickness, See also:famine and desertions, his troops were diminished to little more than 200 men. Intrigues of various sorts, and fighting of a guerilla type, followed with disappointing results, and Essex had difficulties both with the See also:deputy See also:Fitzwilliam and with the queen. Essex was in straits himself, and his offensive movements in Ulster took the See also:form of raids and brutal massacres among the O'Neills; in See also:October 1574 he treacherously captured MacPhelim at a See also:conference in Belfast, and after slaughtering his attendants had him and his wife and See also:brother executed at See also:Dublin. Elizabeth, instigated apparently by See also:Leicester, after encouraging Essex to. prepare to attack the Irish See also:chief Tirlogh Luineach, suddenly commanded him to " break off his enterprise "; but, as she See also:left him a certain discretionary See also:power, he took See also:advantage of it to defeat Tirlogh Luineach, chastise See also:Antrim, and See also:massacre several hundreds of Sorley Boy's following, chiefly See also:women and See also:children, discovered hiding in the caves of Rathlin. He returned to See also:England in the end of 1575, resolved " to live henceforth an untroubled See also:life "; but he was ultimately persuaded to accept the offer of the queen to make him earl marshal of Ireland. He arrived in Dublin in See also:September 1576, and three See also:weeks afterwards died of See also:dysentery. There were suspicions that he had been poisoned by Leicester, who shortly after his See also:death married his widow, but these were not confirmed by the See also:post-mortem examination. The endeavours of Essex to better the See also:condition of Ireland were a See also:dismal failure; and the massacres of the O'Neills and of the Scots of Rathlin leave a dark stain on his reputation.
See See also:Sidney See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee's See also:article in the Dict. Nat. Biog. ; Lives of the Devereux Earls of Essex, by Hon. Walter B. Devereux (1853); See also:Froude's See also:History of England, vol. x.; J. S. See also:Brewer, See also:Athenaeum (1870), See also:part i. pp. 261, 326.
End of Article: ESSEX, WALTER DEVEREUX, IST2 EARL OF (1541–1576)
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