Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney

Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney

English Army officer and politician (1641–1704)

Biography

Lieutenant-General Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney was an English Army officer and Whig politician who served as Master-General of the Ordnance from 1693 to 1702. He is best known as one of the Immortal Seven, a group of seven Englishmen who drafted an invitation to William of Orange, which led to the November 1688 Glorious Revolution and subsequent deposition of James II of England.

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