Their son Thomas Howard (ob. 1626) was created Earl of Suffolk, and was Chancellor of the University.
Nicholas Sidney = Anne, sister of William Brandon, | father of Charles Duke of Suffolk. | Sir William, ob. 1553. | +----------------------------+ | | Thomas Ratcliffe Earl = 2ndly Frances, Sir Henry = Mary, dau. of of Sussex, ob. 9 March 1589, ob. 1586, | John Dudley Lord Deputy for FOUNDER OF SIDNEY resident | Duke of Ireland, 1557. SUSSEX COLLEGE. of Wales | Northumberland. and Lord | Deputy for | Ireland. | | +-------------------------------+-------------------+--| | | | Sir Philip Sidney = a dau. of Robert Sidney Henry Herbert = 3rdly Mary. ob. 1586. Sir Francis created Earl Earl of Pembroke Walsingham. of Leicester, (2nd earl She married ob. 1616. of this line). 2ndly Robert Devereux Earl of Essex (beheaded 1600), and 3rdly Richard de Burgh the 'great Earl' of Clanricarde.
The names of great Cantabrigians hardly ever appear singly in the annals of the university, and as there are family groups among founders so there are also among its other benefactors and distinguished representatives. Babington, Bacon, Beaumont, Bryan, Cavendish, Cecil, Coleridge, Darwin, Devereux, Fletcher, Greville, Harvey, Langton, Lightfoot, Lytton, Manners, Montague, Neville, Newton, Palmer, Shepard, Taylor, Thackeray, Temple, Wordsworth--all form such groups, and have provided the university not only with great names, but with a family history.
No name has clung more steadily to Cambridge than Babington--it was known there at least as early as the xv century, and was that of the 25th abbot of Bury in the time of Henry VI. Henry Babington was vice-chancellor in 1500; Dr. Humphrey Babington built the two sets of rooms on the south side of Nevile's court known as 'the Babington rooms,' in 1681, and his family have given prominent members to the university ever since. One of the Bacons was the last Master of Gonville, and Nicholas Bacon and his two sons were at Corpus and Trinity. Beaumont is a Peterhouse name; but in the reign of Elizabeth Dr. Robert Beaumont was Master of Trinity and vice-chancellor, and a Beaumont was Master of Peterhouse
in the xviii century. Towards the end of the xiv century William Cavendish was fellow and master of the same college, and John Cavendish had been chancellor in 1380. In Gray's time Lord John Cavendish was at Cambridge, in the next century Henry Cavendish the scientist; and the connexion of this family with the university has never been severed.