PhilipSidneywasbornatPenshurst,i,ohofNovember,1554.Hisfather,SirHenrySidney,hadmarriedMary,eldestdaughterofJohnDudley,DukeofNorthumberland,andPhilipwastheeldestoftheirfamilyofthreesonsandfhters.EdmundSpenserandWalterRaleighwereoflikeagewithPhilipSidney,differingonlybyaboutayear,andwhenElizabethbecamequeen,ohofNovember,1558,theywerechildrenoffourorfiveyearsold.

    Intheyear1560SirHenrySidneywasmadeLordPresidentofWales,representingtheQueeninWalesandthefouradjatwesternties,asaLordDeputyrepresentedherinIreland.TheofficialresideheLordPresidentwasatLudlowCastle,towhichPhilipSidwithhisfamilywhenachildofsix.InthesameyearhisfatherwasinstalledasaKnightoftheGarter.WheninhistenthyearPhilipSidneywassentfromLudlowtoShrewsburyGrammarSchool,wherehestudiedforthreeorfouryears,andhadamonghisschoolfellowsFulkeGreville,afterwardsLordBrooke,whoremaiiltheendofSidneyslifeoneofhisclosestfriends.Whenhehimselfwasdyinghedirectedthatheshouldbedescribeduponhistombas"FulkeGreville,servanttoQueenElizabeth,sellortoKingJames,andfriendtoSirPhilipSidney."EvenDr.

    ThomasThornton,ofChristChurch,Oxford,underwhomSidneylacedwhenhewaseoChristChurhisfourteenthyear,atMidsummer,in1568,haditafterwardsrecordedonhistombthathewas"thetutorofSirPhilipSidney."

    SidneywasieenthyearinMay,1572,wheheUytotirainingfortheserviceofthestate,bytraveloi.Lisedtotravelwithhorsesforhimselfandthreeservants,PhilipSidLondonirainoftheEarlofLin,whowasgoingoutasambassadortoCharlesIX.,inParis.HearisohofAugus