Algernon Sidney
British politician and political theorist (1623-1683) · Politicians · Died at 60
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.
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Portrait of Sidney on the frontispiece of the French translation Discours sur le gouvernement (Discourses Concerning Government), The Hague, 1702
Bust of Algernon Sidney made around 1793, Musée de la Révolution française
Copy of a 1663 portrait of Sidney by Justus van Egmont (National Portrait Gallery, London)
18th century hand-coloured engraving of Sidney
Sidney, Algernon: Discourses concerning government, London 1698About this person
Sidney was later charged with plotting against Charles II, in part based on his most famous work, Discourses Concerning Government, which was used by the prosecution as a witness at his trial. He was executed for treason. After his death, Sidney was revered as a "Whig patriot - hero and martyr".
