FRANCES SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF SUSSEX

'Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex' (1531-1589) was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Elizabeth I of England and the foundress of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Frances was the daughter of Sir William Sidney of Penshurst, a prominent courtier during the reign of Henry VIII and Lord Chamberlain to Edward VI, and his wife Anne Packenham. She was the sister of Sir Henry Sidney, and the aunt of the poet Sir Philip Sidney.
In 1555, Frances married as his second wife Thomas Radclyffe, who would become Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1556 and Earl of Sussex on his father's death in 1557. They left no children.
In her will, Frances Sidney left the sum of ₤5,000 together with some plate to found a new college at Cambridge University "to be called the Lady Frances Sidney Sussex College".^[1]

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1. Hearn, Karen, ed. ''Dynasties: Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530-1630'', p. 95

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★ Hearn, Karen, ed. Dynasties: ''Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530-1630.'' New York: Rizzoli, 1995. ISBN 0-8478-1940-X.