Anthony Mildmay

Sir Anthony Mildmay (died 1617) of Apethorpe Palace, Northamptonshire, served as a Member of Parliament for Wiltshire from 1584 to 1586 and as English ambassador in Paris in 1597.

[1] He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge,[2] and delivered an oration with much success when Queen Elizabeth I visited the College on 9 August 1564.

"I always knew him," wrote Chamberlain soon after Mildmay had settled in Paris, "to be paucorum hominum, yet he hath ever showed himself an honourable fast frend where he found vertue and desert".

[5] The French King complained of Mildmay's ungenial manner and of the coldness with which he listened to the praises of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.

[1] In 1567 he married Grace (d. 27 July 1620), a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Henry Sharington (or Sherington) of Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, by whom he left an only child and heiress: He died on 11 September 1617 and was buried in St Leonard's Church, Apethorpe, where his elaborate marble monument with recumbent effigies of himself and his wife survives.