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​SEDLEY, Sir CHARLES (1639?–1701), wit and dramatic author, was born about 1639 at Aylesford in Kent. He was the youngest and posthumous son of Sir John Sedley (or Sidley, as the name was properly spelt), baronet, of Southfleet in Kent, whither this ancient family had moved its seat from the neighbourhood of Romney Marsh.

Sir John Sedley's wife Elizabeth was the daughter and heiress of the learned Sir Henry Savile (1549–1622) [q. v.] ‘An Epitaph on the Lady Sedley’ was written by Edmund Waller (Poems, ed. Drury, p. 243).

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Sir Charles Sedley, 4th Baronet was an English Restoration poet, dramatist, wit, and courtier.

Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, was an English noble, dramatist and politician.

Their son Charles succeeded to the title and estates after his elder brothers William and Henry had both died unmarried (Collins). Sedley entered Wadham College, Oxford, as a fellow commoner on 22 March 1655–6, but took no degrees.

After the Restoration he entered parliament as one of the members (barons) for New Romney. The earliest of many notices concerning him in Pepys's ‘Diary’ refers to a