John Sheffield was the 1st Duke of BuckinghamSHIRE not the 1st Duke of Buckingham. He was NOT part of the Merry Gang. Lord Rochester and Lord Mulgrave HATED each other and at one time were supposed to fight a duel. John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, KG, PC (7 April 1648 – 24 February 1721), English statesman and poet, was the son of Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave, and succeeded to that title on his father’s death in 1658. A garter is one of the Orders most recognisable insignia. ... Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. ... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... 1648 (MDCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events Pope Innocent XIII becomes pope Johann Sebastian Bach composes the Brandenburg Concertos April 4 - Robert Walpole becomes the first prime minister of Britain September 10 - Treaty of Nystad is signed, bringing an end to the Great Northern War November 2 - Peter I is proclaimed Emperor of All the Russias... Events January 13 - Edward Sexby, who had plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in Tower of London February 6 - Swedish troops of Charles X Gustav of Sweden cross The Great Belt (Storebælt) in Denmark over frozen sea May 1 - Publication of Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus by...

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Buckingham and Normanby, John Sheffield, 1st Duke of

At the age of eighteen he joined the fleet, to serve in the Second Anglo-Dutch War; on the renewal of hostilities in 1672 he was present at the battle of Sole Bay, and in the next year received the command of a ship. He was also made a colonel of infantry, and served for some time under Turenne. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1674. In 1680 he was put in charge of an expedition sent to relieve the town of Tangier. It was said that he was provided with a rotten ship in the hope that he would not return, but the reason of this abortive plot, if plot there was, is not exactly ascertained. At court he took the side of the Duke of York, and helped to bring about Monmouth’s disgrace. In 1682 he was dismissed from the court, apparently for putting himself forward as a suitor for the Princess Anne, but on the accession of King James II, he received a seat in the Privy Council, and was made Lord Chamberlain. (He later married Catherine, the daughter of the king's mistress, Catherine Sedley). He supported James in his most unpopular measures, and stayed with him in London during the time of his flight. He also protected the Spanish ambassador from the dangerous anger of the mob. He acquiesced, however, in the "Glorious Revolution", and in 1694 was made Marquess of Normanby. In 1696 he refused in company with other Tory peers to sign an agreement to support William as their "rightful and lawful king" against Jacobite attempts, and was consequently dismissed from the privy council. On the accession of Anne, with whom he was a personal favourite, he became Lord Privy Seal and Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire, and in 1703 Duke of Buckingham and Normanby. During the predominance of the Whigs between 1705 and 1710, Buckingham was deprived of his office as Lord Privy Seal, but in 1710 he was made Lord Steward, and in 1711 Lord President of the Council. 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Buckingham, who is better known by his inherited titles as Lord Mulgrave, was the author of An Account of the Revolution and some other essays, and of numerous poems, among them the Essay on Poetry and the Essay on Satire. It is probable that the Essay on Satire, which attacked many notable persons, "sauntering Charles" amongst others, was circulated in MS. It was often attributed at the time to Dryden, who accordingly suffered a thrashing at the hands of Rochester’s bravoes for the reflections it contained upon the earl. Mulgrave was a patron of Dryden, who may possibly have revised it, but was certainly not responsible, although it is commonly printed with his works. Mulgrave adapted Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, breaking it up into two plays, Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus. He introduced choruses between the acts, two of these being written by Pope, and an incongruous love scene between Brutus and Portia. He was a constant friend and patron of Pope, who expressed a flattering opinion of his Essay on Poetry. This, although smoothly enough written, deals chiefly with commonplaces. John Dryden John Dryden (August 19 {August 9 O.S.}, 1631 - May 12 {May 1 O.S.}, 1700) was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright, who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Tragedy of Julius Cæsar, more commonly known simply as Julius Caesar, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare written in around 1600. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Marcus Junius Brutus Caepio (85 BC–42 BC), or simply Brutus, was a Roman politician of the late Roman Republic. ... Porcia (male - Porcius) is a Roman gens name, it may refer to several women around in the late Roman republic: Porcia the Elder, sister of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis. ...

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Marriage and children

• He had an illegitimate son with his mistress Frances Stewart:

1. Sir Charles Herbert Sheffield, 1st Baronet (c. 1706-1774)

• He married, firstly, Ursula Stawell, daughter of George Stawell and Ursula Austen, on 18 March 1685/86 in Littlecote Chapel, Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England.

• He had an illegitimate daughter:

1. Mary Sheffield (b. b 1692, d. 26 October 1729)

• He married, secondly, Catherine Greville, daughter of Fulke Greville, 5th Baron Brooke and Sarah Dashwood, on 12 March 1698/99 in St. Clement Danes, Westminster, London, England.

• He married, thirdly, Lady Catherine Darnley, an illegitimate daughter of James II of Great Britain and Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester, on 16 March 1705/6 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Covent Garden, London, England. They had three sons:

1. John Sheffield, Marquess of Normanby (26 September 1710 - 16 December 1710)
2. Robert Sheffield, Marquess of Normanby (11 December 1711 - 1 February 1714/15
3. Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Duke Buckingham and Normanby (3 January 1715/16 - 30 October 1735)

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Reference

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