Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir Anthony St. Leger

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3433281Men of Kent and Kentishmen — Sir Anthony St. LegerJohn Hutchinson


Sir Anthony St. Leger,

STATESMAN,

"Is rationally reputed," says Fuller, "a Kentishman, though he had also a Devonshire relation." He was properly the first Viceroy of Ireland, and during his rule Henry VIII, assumed the title of King and head of the Church of Ireland. His administration was vigorous. He caused O'Neil, O'Brien and other Irish chiefs to surrender their lands to the king, and receive them again by letters patent, with the title of Earls, etc., and he gave them residences near Dublin "that they might suck in civility with the Court air." He died in the reign of Edward VI.

[See "Fuller's Worthies," and Bagwell's "Ireland under the Tudors."]