Henry Sidney
Henry Sidney was a statesman of Great Britain.
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Sidney served under Radclyffe in the subjugation of Scottish-Gaelic clans in Ireland.
Elizabeth appointed Sidney to lord president of Wales in 1559, removing him from Ireland for several years.
In 1565 he returned to Ireland, finally as lord deputy himself. He had significant success in implementing surrender and regrant policies; chiefs and lords were compelled to surrender lands to the crown, then granted those same lands within the feudal structure of the English crown. He also enacted widespread violence (e.g., the Rathlin Island massacre, suppression of the First and Second Desmond Rebellion, the Massacre of Mullaghmast, etc.) to maintain command over the territory.
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