Philip Sidney, 5th Earl of Leicester (8 July 1676 – 24 July 1705) was a British peer and Member of Parliament for Kent, styled Viscount Lisle from 1698 to 1702. He inherited the

earldom Earl () is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. In modern Britain, an earl is a member of the peerage, ranking below a marquess and above a viscount. A feminine form of ''earl'' never developed; instead, ''countess'' is used. The titl ...

from

Robert Sidney, 4th Earl of Leicester Robert Sidney, 4th Earl of Leicester (17 December 1649 – 11 November 1702) was the son of Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester, and the former Lady Catherine Cecil. Life As a child, Robert Sidney and his sister Dorothy had their portrait pai ...

and was succeeded by his brother

John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester Order of the Bath, KB (14 February 168027 September 1737) was an English soldier, peer, landowner, and courtier, and from 1705 to 1737 was Earl of Leicester, with a seat in the House of Lords. Life Leicester w ...

. There is a memorial to him at

St John the Baptist, Penshurst St John the Baptist Church at Penshurst, Kent is a Listed building#Categories of listed building, Grade I listed Church of England, Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Rochester in England. Those buried or commemorated here include Knights, E ...

References

*http://thepeerage.com/p2947.htm#i29462 1676 births 1705 deaths 5th Earl of Leicester Sidney, Philip

Philip Philip, also Phillip, is a male name derived from the Macedonian Old Koine language, Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominen ...

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