1-624-337 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Death of Sir Philip Sidney, 1586, (1860). Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) was one of the Elizabethan Age's most prominent figures. He was famous in his day in England as a poet, courtier and soldier. Sidney was appointed Governor of Flushing in the Netherlands in 1585. He was mortally wounded in the thigh at the Battle of Zutphen in which the Dutch and English defeated the Spanish on 22 September 1586, and died at Arnhem 26 days later.