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Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet
Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet (March 1639 – 20 August 1701) was an English wit, dramatist and politician, ending his career as Speaker of the House of Commons.
==Life==
Charles Sedley was the son of Sir John Sedley, 2nd Baronet, of Aylesford in Kent, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Savile. The Sedleys (also sometimes spelled Sidley) had been prominent in Kent since at least 1337. Sedley's grandfather, William Sedley, was knighted in 1605 and created a baronet in 1611. He was the founder of the ''Sidleian Lectures of Natural Philosophy at Oxford''. Sedley was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, but left without taking a degree. There his tutor was the poet Walter Pope. The second surviving son of Sir John Sedley and Elizabeth, William, succeeded to the baronetcy in 1645. Charles Sedley inherited the title (5th baronet) in 1656 when his brother William died.
By his first wife Lady Katherine Savage, daughter of John, 2nd Earl Rivers he had only one legitimate child, Catherine, Countess of Dorchester, mistress of James II. The couple lived in Great Queen Street. After his first wife had been sent to a convent in Ghent on account of a serious mental condition, Sedley in vain tried to obtain a divorce. He met Ann Ayscough, probably around 1670, by whom he had two illegitimate sons, William and Charles Sedley. William died in infancy, the brother Charles was knighted by William III after the coronation in 1689 and created a baronet in 1702.〔Burke's Extinct and Dorment Baronetcies, p483〕 The relationship with Ann Ayscough lasted to the end of Sedley's life. Sedley died at Hampstead on 20 August 1701 and was buried at Southfleet Church on the 26th. The Sedley baronetcy became extinct on his death.〔(Extinct and Dorment Baronetcies )〕
Sedley is famous as a patron〔See ''"The Mulberry-Garden" and "Bellamira"'', ed. Hanowell, pp. xxxi-xxxii.〕 of literature in the Restoration period, and was the Francophile Lisideius of Dryden's ''Essay of Dramatic Poesy''.〔Frank L. Huntley, "On the Persons in Dryden's ''Essay of Dramatic Poesy'', in: ''Essential Articles for the Study of John Dryden'', ed. H.T. Swedenberg Jr. (Hamden, CO, 1966), pp. 83-90.〕 However, it was above all Sedley's ''wit'' that his contemporaries admired him for.〔''The Diary of Samuel Pepys'', ed. Latham and Matthews, Vol. V, p. 288 and Vol. VIII, p. 71. See also the presentation of Sedley in Gerard Langbaine, ''An Account of the Dramatick Poets. The English Stage: Attack and Defense 1577-1730'', ed. Arthur Freeman (New York and London, 1973.〕
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