Sadleir, Ralph (1579-03-25 - 1661-03-25)

Sir Ralph Sadleir was born in 1579. He was the grandfather of Sir Ralph Sadleir, a diplomat who had served under Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII, and Edward VI. He married Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Coke, on 13 September 1601. He died in 1661. A portrait of him hangs in Sutton House, Hackney. See also Arnold Hunt, 'The Books, Manuscripts and Literary Patronage of Mrs Anne Sadleir (1585-1670)' in Victoria E. Burke and Jonathan Gibson, eds, Early Modern Women's Manuscript Writing: Selected Papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), pp. 205-236.