Short answers, pulled from the story.
Henry Wriothesley 3rd Earl of Southampton entered the world on the 6th of October 1573 at Cowdray House in Sussex. He was the only son of Henry Wriothesley 2nd Earl of Southampton and Mary Browne.
Henry Wriothesley 3rd Earl of Southampton faced sentencing to death for his role in Essex's Rebellion of 1601 before Robert Cecil obtained commutation of the penalty to life imprisonment. The Queen Elizabeth granted clemency after he induced players at the Globe Theatre to revive Richard II on the eve of the abortive uprising.
Nathan Drake first suggested in 1817 that Henry Wriothesley 3rd Earl of Southampton was not just a dedicatee but also the Fair Youth of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Some scholars argue Henry Wriothesley initials reversed spell Mr W.H. though Academic Park Honan argues there is no real likelihood that Southampton traduced him by drawing his portrait as the fickle Young Man of the sonnets.
Henry Wriothesley 3rd Earl of Southampton and Elizabeth Vernon had two sons and three daughters listed on his funeral certificate including Lady Penelope Wriothesley who lived from the 18th of November 1598 until the 16th of July 1667. James Wriothesley Lord Wriothesley lived from the 1st of March 1605 until the 5th of November 1624 while Thomas Wriothesley became the fourth Earl of Southampton living from the 10th of March 1607 until the 16th of May 1667.
Henry Wriothesley 3rd Earl of Southampton died on the 10th of November 1624 at Bergen-op-Zoom aged fifty-one. His remains returned to England and were buried in the family chapel of Titchfield parish church alongside his eldest son James who succumbed to an unspecified fever five days earlier while they fought in the Low Countries against Spanish troops.