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Edward Harley entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1707 and succeeded to the title as 2nd Earl of Oxford in 1724. He was a patron of Pope , Swift , Prior and Vertue . His great library, started by his father and described by Samuel Johnson as excelling any offered for sale, was dispersed in 1742, but the celebrated (Harleian) manuscripts were bought for the British Museum in 1753 from the dowager ...
Royal Society. modifier - modifier le code - modifier Wikidata. Edward Harley, 2e comte d'Oxford et comte Mortimer ( 2 juin 1689 - 16 juin 1741 ), titré Lord Harley entre 1711 et 1724, est un homme politique britannique, bibliophile, collectionneur et mécène des arts.
Harley was duly elected, without opposition or expense, and took his seat in the Commons on 20 Feb. 1693, ‘with extraordinary respect from very many’, as he himself recorded, taking care to add that this fact was mentioned ‘in all humility to the glory’ of God. 4.
19 de jun. de 2023 · Edward Harley, the Lord-Lieutenant of Herefordshire, lives in Bucknell, has an SY postcode and was given a CBE in the King's Birthday Honours to add to his OBE. "It was very flattering and I am ...
The 1st earl's only son, EDWARD HARLEY (1689 - 1741), 2nd earl, a friend of Pope and other men of letters, was Member of Parliament for Radnor borough from 1711 till 1715, when he was defeated by Thomas Lewis of Harpton. He took little part in public life, but made many additions to his father's library - his widow sold it to the nation in 1753.
Harley, who after 1703 was customarily called by his official designation of ‘auditor’, was happy in a role akin to that of faithful squire, acting as man-of-business for his family and as a political lieutenant of his elder brother. His exceptional religiosity, however, gave him a significantly separate identity.
Sir Edward Harley (21 October 1624 – 8 December 1700) was an English politician from Herefordshire. A devout Puritan who fought for Parliament in the First English Civil War, Harley belonged to the moderate Presbyterian faction, which opposed the involvement of the New Model Army in the peace negotiations that followed victory in 1646.
