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See also:ROCHESTER, See also:JOHN See also:WILMOT, 2ND See also:EARL of (1647–168o), See also:English poet and wit, was the son 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 Wilmot, 1st earl. The See also:family was descended from See also:Edward Wilmot of See also:Witney, See also:Oxfordshire, whose son See also:Charles (c. 1570—C.1644), having served with distinction in See also:Ireland during the See also:rebellion at the beginning of the 17th See also:century, was See also:president of See also:Connaught from 1616 until his See also:death. In 1621 he had been created an Irish peer as See also:Viscount Wilmot of See also:Athlone, and he was succeeded by his only surviving son, Henry (c. 1612–1658). Having fought against the Scots at See also:Newburn and been imprisoned and expelled from
the See also:House of See also:Commons for plotting in the interests of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king in 1641, Henry Wilmot served Charles I. well during the See also:Civil See also:War, being responsible for the defeats of See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Waller at Roundway Down in See also:July 1643 and at Cropredy See also:Bridge in See also:June 1644. In 1643 he was created See also:Baron Wilmot of Adderbury. Wilmot was on See also:bad terms with some of the king's See also:friends and advisers, including See also:Prince See also:Rupert, and in 1644 he is reported to have said that Charles was afraid of See also:peace and to have advised his supercession by his son, the prince of See also:Wales. Consequently he was deprived of his command, and after a See also:short imprisonment was allowed to See also:cross over to See also:France. He was greatly trusted by Charles II., whose defeat at See also:Worcester and subsequent wanderings he shared, and during this king's See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile he was one of his See also:principal advisers, being created by him earl of Rochester in 1652. In the interests of Charles he visited the See also:emperor See also:Ferdinand III., the See also:duke of See also:Lorraine, and the elector of See also:Brandenburg, and in See also:March 1655 he was in See also:England, where he led a feeble See also:attempt at a rising on See also:Marston See also:Moor, near See also:York; on its failure he fled the See also:country.
See also:Born at Ditchley in Oxfordshire on the loth of See also:April 1647, John Wilmot, who succeeded his See also:father as 2nd earl in 1658, was educated at Wadham See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, and in 1661, although he was only fourteen years of See also:age, received the degree of M.A. On leaving Oxford he travelled in France and See also:Italy with a See also:tutor who encouraged his love of literature, and moreover advocated principles of See also:temperance which, however, See also:bore little See also:fruit. He returned in 1664, and at once made his way to Charles II.'s See also:court, where his youth, See also:good looks and wit assured him of a welcome In 1665 he joined the See also:fleet serving against the Dutch as a volunteer, and in the following See also:year distinguished himself by carrying a See also:message in an open See also:boat under See also:fire. This reputation for courage was afterwards lost in private quarrels in which he seems to have shirked danger. He became See also:gentleman of the bedchamber to Charles II., and was the confidant of his various exploits. According to See also:Anthony See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton, banishment from court for lampooning the king or his mistresses was with Rochester an almost See also:annual occurrence, but his disgrace was never of See also:long duration. Charles seems to have found his See also:company too congenial to be long dispensed with, and See also:Pepys says that all serious men were disgusted by the complaisance with which he passed over Rochester's insolence (See also:Diary, 17th Feb. 1669). In See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to restore his rapidly vanishing See also:fortune he became a suitor to See also:Elizabeth See also:Malet. In spite of the king's support of Rochester's suit, See also:Miss Malet refused to marry the earl, who thereupon had her seized (1665) from her See also:uncle's See also:coach. Rochester was pursued, and Charles, who was very angry, sent him to the See also:Tower. Miss Malet, however, married him in 1667.
Not content with making or unmaking the reputation of the maids of See also:honour and the courtiers by his squibs and songs, Rochester aspired to be a See also:patron of See also:poetry and an arbiter of See also:taste, but he was vain and capricious, tolerating no rivals in his capacity of patron. See also:Dryden dedicated to him his See also:Marriage-See also:ala-Mode (1672) in a See also:preface full of effusive flattery, at the See also:close of which, however, occurs a passage that may be taken to indicate that he already had misgivings. " Your lordship has but another step to make," he says, " and from the patron of wit, you may become its See also:tyrant; and oppress our little reputations with more ease than you now protect them." Dryden had another patron in See also:Lord See also:Mulgrave (afterwards duke of Bucking-See also:ham and See also:Normanby), to whom he dedicated (r675) Aurengzebe. Mulgrave had engaged in a See also:duel with Rochester, who had re-fused to fight at the last See also:minute on the ground of See also:ill-See also:health. Mulgrave allowed this See also:story to spread, and Rochester, who apparently thought him too dangerous an opponent, revenged himself on Dryden as Mulgrave's protege by setting up as his rivals, first Elkanah See also:Settle, and then John See also:Crowne. By his See also:influence Settle's Emperor of See also:Morocco was played at See also:Whitehall, and Crowne was employed, in See also:direct infringement of Dryden's See also:province as See also:laureate, to write a masque for the court. Both these poets were discarded in turn for Nathaniel 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 and See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Otway. In 1679 Mulgrave began to circulate his See also:Essay on See also:Satire in which Rochester was singled out for severe See also:criticism.
Rochester See also:chose to pretend that this was Dryden's See also:work, not Mulgrave's, and by his orders a See also:band of roughs set on the poet in See also:Rose See also:Alley, Covent See also:Garden, and See also:beat him. He obviously See also:felt no shame for this infamous attack, for in his " See also:Imitation of the First Satire of See also:Juvenal " he says, " Who'd be a wit in Dryden's cudgelled skin?" His health was already undermined, and in the See also:spring of i68o he retired to High See also:Lodge, See also:Woodstock See also:Park. He began to show signs of a more serious See also:temper, and at his own See also:request was visited (July 20th to July 24th) by See also:Bishop See also:Burnet, who attested the sincerity of his repentance. He died, however, two days after the bishop See also:left him. When his son Charles, the 3rd earl, died on the 12th of See also:November 1681, his titles became See also:extinct.
As a poet Rochester was a follower of See also:Abraham See also:Cowley and of Boileau, to both of whom he was considerably indebted. His love lyrics are often happy, but his real vigour and ability is best shown in his See also:critical poems and satires. The See also:political satires are notable for their fierce exposure of Charles II.'s weakness, his ingratitude, and the See also:slavery in which he was held by his mistresses. They show that Rochester had it in him to be a very different See also:man from the criticizing courtier and the " very profane wit " who figures in contemporary See also:memoirs.
BIBLiOGRAPHY.—Poems on Several Occasions by the Right Honour-able the Earl of Rochester . . . (See also:Antwerp, 168o) , was really printed in See also:London, Other issues, slightly varying in See also:title and contents, appeared in 1685, 1691 and 1696. Valentinian, A Tragedy, adapted from See also:Beaumont and See also:Fletcher, was printed in 1685; a scurrilous attack. on Charles H. in the shape of a See also:play in heroic couplets, Sodom, was printed in 1684, and is supposed, in spite of Rochester's denial, to have been chiefly his work. No copy of this is known, but there are two See also:MSS. extant. The completest edition of his See also:works is The Poetical Works of the Earl of Rochester (1731-32). Expurgated -collections are to be found in See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson's, See also:- ANDERSON
- ANDERSON, ADAM (1692—1765)
- ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (c. 1582-1620?)
- ANDERSON, ELIZABETH GARRETT (1836— )
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1662—1728)
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1739-1808)
- ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796)
- ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )
- ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY (1821–1879)
- ANDERSON, ROBERT (1750–1830)
- ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (1530-1605)
Anderson's and See also:Chalmers's See also:editions of the See also:British Poets. His See also:Familiar Letters were printed in 1686, 1697 and 1699. His Political Satires are available, with those of Sir John See also:Denham and See also:Andrew Marvell, in the Bibliotheca Curiosa (Some Political Satires of the Seventeenth Century, vol. i., See also:Edinburgh, 1885). Contemporary accounts of Rochester are to be found in the memoir by See also:Saint-Evremond pre-fixed to an edition of 1709, in Hamilton's Memoires du See also:Comte de See also:Gramont, in the funeral See also:sermon preached by See also:Robert See also:Parsons (168o), and in Bishop Burnet's Some Passages in the See also:Life and Death of John, Earl of Rochester (168o), reprinted in Bishop See also:Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical See also:Biography (vol. vi.).
End of Article: ROCHESTER, JOHN WILMOT, 2ND EARL
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