Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 195. Not illustrated. Chapters: Deputy Lieutenants of Essex, Lord-Lieutenants of Essex, John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Sir John Pelly, 1st Baronet, Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford, Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, John Petre, 1st Baron Petre, Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland, R. Cunliffe Gosling, Nigel Strutt, John Waldegrave, 3rd Earl Waldegrave, Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex, Walter Gilbey, Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, Charles Gray Round, Sir Edward Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet, John Ruggles-Brise, Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 1st Baronet, Francis Whitmore, Thomas Pike, George Cooper, Henry Howard, 6th Earl of Suffolk, Sir William Boulton, 1st Baronet, Sir William Makins, 1st Baronet, Lord Lieutenant of Essex, Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, James Majendie, William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, Edmund Hoyle Vestey, Charles Howard, 9th Earl of Suffolk, Aubrey Buxton, Baron Buxton of Alsa, Augustus Charles Newman, Francis Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick, Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford, John Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, Thomas Trevor, 22nd Baron Dacre, Arthur Gore, 6th Earl of Arran, Sir Thomas Western, 1st Baronet, Claud Charlton, John Petre, 18th Baron Petre, Robert Dixon-Smith, Baron Dixon-Smith, Henry O'brien, 8th Earl of Thomond, John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford, Francis North, 2nd Baron Guilford, James Hay, 2nd Earl of Carlisle, Julius Neave, Charles Howard, 7th Earl of Suffolk, Sir Thomas Western, 3rd Baronet, Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 2nd Baronet. Excerpt: Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester KG (24 June 1532 4 September 1588) was an English nobleman and a favourite and close friend of Elizabeth I of England from her first year on the t...