Algernon Sidney (1623–1683)
Algernon Sidney (or Sydney), member of Parliament and political theorist, was born to nobility in London on 14 or 15 January 1623. He fought for the Roundheads and served in the Long Parliament during the English Civil War. Abroad when Charles II was crowned in 1660, Sidney would live in exile for seventeen years before returning to England.
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Caroline Robbins, "Algernon Sidney’s Discourses Concerning Government: Textbook of Revolution," The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 4, Number 3 (July 1947), 267–96.
Jonathan Scott, "Sidney [Sydney], Algernon (1623–1683)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2008).