Philip Sidney, 2nd Viscount De L'Isle

The Right Honourable The Viscount De L'Isle MBE
Lord Lieutenant of Kent
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 September 2011
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Preceded by	Allan Willett
Member of the House of Lords as Viscount De L'Isle
In office 5 April 1991 – 11 November 1999
Preceded by	William Sidney
Succeeded by	House of Lords Act 1999
Personal details
Born	(1945-04-21) 21 April 1945
Alma mater	Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

Philip John Algernon Sidney, 2nd Viscount De L'Isle, MBE (born 21 April 1945) is a British peer and former soldier.

Life and career

Lord De L'Isle is the only son of William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle and his wife Jacqueline (née Vereker), a daughter of Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort. He was educated at Tabley House, Mons OCS and Sandhurst. After service in the Rifle Brigade, in 1966, he became a Major in the Grenadier Guards and took early retirement in 1979.

He was appointed Vice-Lieutenant of Kent in 2002 and is also a Freeman of the City of London and a member of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. On 1 September 2011, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Kent. In 2012, he was made a commander of the Order of Saint John.

Marriage and family

On 15 November 1980, De L'Isle married Isobel Tresyllian Compton, youngest daughter of the civil servant Sir Edmund Compton. They have two children: Sophia Jacqueline Mary Sidney (born 1983) and Philip William Edmund Sidney (born 1985).

De L'Isle succeeded to his father's titles in 1991. The family seat is Penshurst Place in Kent.

Obscure claim to the English Crown

If (1) Richard III's claim that Edward IV's marriage was invalid is true (see the notorious Titulus Regius); (2) Duke George of Clarence's attainment constituted a disqualification of his heirs claims to the crown; and (3) several acts of Parliament declaring who the rightful monarch are ignored, then the Viscount De L'Isle would have a claim to the English throne through Anne of York (1439-1476, Edward IV's and Richard III's eldest sister); Anne St. Leger (1476-1526); Thomas, Earl of Rutland (1492-1543); Henry, Earl of Rutland (1526-1563); John, Earl of Rutland (1559-1588); Lady Bridget Manners (1572-1604); Roger Tyrwhitt (1598-1642); Francis Tyrwhitt (1634-1673); (9) Catherine Tyrwhitt (1657-1737); Sir Thomas Hunloke, Bt. (1684-1732); Sir Henry Hunloke, Bt. (1724-1804); Henrietta Hunloke (1765-1811); Philip, Lord De L'Isle and Dudley (1800-1851); Philip, Lord De L'Isle and Dudley (1828-1898); William, Baron De L'Isle and Dudley (1859-1945); William, Viscount De L'Isle (1909-1991); and finally Philip, Viscount De L'Isle, b. 1945.

Ancestry

Family of Philip Sidney, 2nd Viscount De L'Isle

16. Philip Sidney, 1st Baron De L'Isle and Dudley 8. Philip Sidney, 2nd Baron De L'Isle and Dudley 17. Lady Sophia FitzClarence 4. William Sidney, 5th Baron De L'Isle and Dudley 18. Sir William Foulis, 8th Baronet 9. Mary Foulis 19. Mary Jane Ross 2. William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle 20. Robert Cooper Lee Bevan 10. Roland Yorke Bevan 21. Lady Agneta Elizabeth Yorke 5. Winifred Agneta Yorke Bevan 22. Arthur Kinnaird, 10th Lord Kinnaird 11. Hon. Agneta Olivia Kinnaird 23. Mary Jane Hoare 1. Philip Sidney, 2nd Viscount De L'Isle 24. Standish Vereker, 4th Viscount Gort 12. John Vereker, 5th Viscount Gort 25. Hon. Caroline Harriet Gage 6. John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort 26. Robert Smith Surtees 13. Eleanor Surtees 27. Elizabeth Jane Fenwick 3. Hon. Jacqueline Corrine Vereker 28. Hon. John Prendergast Vereker 14. George Medlicott Vereker 29. Louisa Medlicott 7. Corinna Katherine Vereker 30. Robert Manders 15. Frances Gore Manders 31. Frances Sophia Turbett

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Viscount De L'Isle

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