He was pardoned for supporting the claim of Lady ¤Jane Grey; aided the forces of ¤Philip II of Spain at the siege of Saint-Quentin (1557); created Earl of Warwick (1561); besieged in Havre while aiding Protestants there and forced to surrender (1563); took part in the trial of ¤Mary, Queen of Scots (1586). MWBD

He was a Royal advisor to Henry VII, but was accused of embezzlement after accession of Henry VIII. Convicted of treason, he was beheaded.

Son of ¤John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, and brother of ¤Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. He married Lady ¤Jane Grey on 21 May, 1553. He was implicated in his father's ill-fated attempt to place Lady Jane on the throne on the death of ¤Edward IV (6 July 1553), and was executed on the charge of treason. NCCN

Son of Gov. Joseph and Rebecca (Tyng) Dudley. He was graduated from Harvard in 1690 and studied law at the Temple in London until about 1701, when he returned home with a royal commission as attorney-general of Massachusetts. He was elevated to the bench of the superior court in 1718 and in 1745 became chief justice. He bequeathed to Harvard college the sum of £100 for the purpose of establishing a lectureship, specifying four subjects to be treated: "Natural Religion," "Revealed Religion," "The Corruption of the Church of Rome," and "The Validity of the Presbyterian Ordination." He was a fellow of the Royal Society of London and the author of numerous contributions to its Transactions. He was married in 1703 to Lucy, daughter of Col. John Wainwright of Ipswich, Mass. In May. 1899, a copy by J. D. Strain of Smybert's original portrait of Justice Dudley was presented to the Massachusetts supreme court, and was placed in the collection of justices and chief justices. He died in Roxbury, Mass., Jan. 21, 1751.

Amid family infighting and accusations of illegitimacy, he abandoned his wife and daughters in England and fled to Italy where he produced many important works of civil and military engineering.