Algernon Sidney or Sydney was an English politician, republican political theorist and colonel. A member of the middle part of the Long Parliament and commissioner of the trial of King Charles I of England, he opposed the king's execution. Wikipedia
Born: January 15, 1623, Blackfriars, London, United Kingdom
Died: December 7, 1683 (age 60 years), Tower Hill, London, United Kingdom
Parents: Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester
Grandparents: Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester and Barbara Sidney, Countess of Leicester
Great-grandparents: Mary Dudley, Henry Sidney, John Gamage, and more
Nationality: English
Books
Discourses concerning government ..
1698
Discourses Concerning Government
Court maxims
Discourses on government
Letters of the Honourable Algernon Sydney, to the Honourable Henry Savile: Ambassador in France. In the Year 1679, &c. Now First Printed from the Originals in Mr. Sydney's Own Hand
1742
Mr. Sidney His Self-conviction, Or, His Dying-paper Condemn'd to Live for a Conviction to the Present Faction and a Caution to Posterity