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Robert Sidney was the second son of Sir Henry Sidney, was a statesman of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. He was also a patron of the arts and a poet. His mother, Mary Sidney née Dudley, was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I and a sister of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, an advisor and favourite of the Queen.
Portola Drive is the extension of Market Street into the south and western portion of San Francisco; San Jose Avenue, a major commuter road, brings thousands of cars into San Francisco every day (aka the Bernal Cut) Van Ness Avenue acts as US 101 through the heart of San Francisco from the Central Freeway towards the northern section of the ...
Philip Sidney, 5th Earl of Leicester (1676–1705) John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester (1680–1737) Hon. Thomas Sidney (1681 – 27 January 1729) Jocelyn Sidney, 7th Earl of Leicester (1682–1743) Three of his sons succeeded their father in turn to the earldom. The youngest son, Jocelyn, was the last earl of this creation.
Capp was secretary of the San Francisco Homestead Union, the first homestead association in San Francisco. The street runs through the lands of the association. [9] Castro Street: José Castro: A Californio leader of Mexican opposition to U.S. rule in California in the 19th century, and alcalde (mayor) of Alta California from 1835 to 1836.
Robert Sidney may refer to: Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester (1563–1626), English nobleman and statesman Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1595–1677), son of the above
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English: Arms Sir Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, KG. Armorial bookstamp of Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester (d.1626). In 1600 he donated £100 to the Bodleian Library in Oxford, which purchased with it 55 foreign books, all of which were imprinted with Sidney's armorial stamp. The heraldry is as follows: Quarterly of sixteen: 1.
During the early 20th century, "running north from Market Street to the Barbary Coast, Kearny Street was an avenue of honky-tonks and saloons frequented by racetrack tipsters and other shady professionals. On election nights it was the scene of torch-light parades and brass bands", as summarized in the 1940 WPA guide to San Francisco. [6]