Charles Sedley 1639-1701
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Sir Charles SEDLEY, 5th baronet 1639-1701
Biographical Note
Sedley matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford in 1656, but did not graduate. After the Restoration he became established himself in court circles as a wit and man of fashion, a drinking companion of the King and occasionally in trouble for bad behaviour. He wrote a number of plays from the 1660s onwards which had success on the stage, as well as poems, and he moved in London literary circles. His daughter Catherine, later Countess of Dorchester, was a mistress of James II. He was MP for New Romney, Kent from 1668 and attended the Duke of Buckingham in his embassy to Louis XIV in 1670.