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9 de may. de 2024 · The son of John Fitzmaurice, who took the additional name of Petty on succeeding to the Irish estates of his uncle and who was created earl of Shelburne (1753), William was educated privately and at Christ Church, Oxford (1755–57), and, entering the army, served in the Seven Years’ War.
30 de dic. de 2020 · See also: William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne on Wikipedia. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1912, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929. The longest-living author of this work died in 1935, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life ...
존 P etty, 1st Earl of Shelburne PC (Ire) (1706 – 1761 년 5 월 14 일), 1751 년까지 John FitzMaurice 및 The Viscount FitzMaurice 로 알려짐 1751 년에서 1753 년 사이에 영국-아일랜드 동료이자 정치인이었습니다. 그는 William Petty, Shelburne 2 대 백작 , 영국 총리 .
William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, PC (2 May 1737 – 7 May 1805), known as The Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was an Irish-born British Whig statesman who was the first Home Secretary in 1782 and then Prime Minister 1782–1783 during the final months of the American War of Independence. He succeeded in securing peace with ...
In 1760, Fitzmaurice was elected as Member of Parliament for Wycombe, but he did not take up his seat. His father died in May 1761, and Fitzmaurice was elevated to the peerage as the Earl of Shelburne. In 1763, Shelburne joined the Grenville ministry as First Lord of Trade. In 1766, he became Southern Secretary in Lord Chatham’s government.
Origins. This branch of the Fitzmaurice family descends from John Fitzmaurice, second son of Thomas Fitzmaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry (see Earl of Kerry for earlier history of the family), and his wife Anne, the daughter of the political economist Sir William Petty, whose wife had been created Baroness Shelburne for her own life only and whose two sons had been created at different times Baron ...
He married Anne Petty (1671–1737), daughter of the scientist and philosopher Sir William Petty and his wife Elizabeth Waller, Baroness Shelburne, daughter of Sir Hardress Waller, in 1692. They had five children: William Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of Kerry; John Petty FitzMaurice, 1st Earl Shelbourne; Elizabeth, who married Maurice Crosbie, 1st ...
