Resultado de búsqueda
John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont PC FRS (24 [1] or 25 [2] February 1711 – 4 December 1770) was a British politician, political pamphleteer, and genealogist who served as First Lord of the Admiralty. Of Anglo-Irish background, he sat in both the Irish and British Parliaments.
John Perceval, 2nd earl of Egmont was an eccentric British politician and pamphleteer, a confidant of George III. Perceval sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1731 to 1748, when he succeeded to his father’s earldom in the Irish peerage. His interests, however, were in British politics.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
PERCEVAL, John, 2nd Earl of Egmont [I] (1711-70). Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke., 1964. Available from Boydell and Brewer.
During the remaining two years of Frederick’s life Egmont, as he had become on the death of his father, was the Prince’s chief political adviser, drawing up for him detailed plans for the opening fortnight of the next reign, including drafts of the new King’s speeches to the Privy Council and Parliament, an analysis of the composition of ...
John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont. (1711-1770), Statesman. Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter in 7 portraits. Perceval had a difficult and complicated political career. In 1747, he switched parties and joined Frederick, Prince of Wales 's opposition faction.
2nd earl of Egmont,1733-1748 - styled Viscount Perceval. 1742 - produced two volumes of the Genealogical History of the House of Yvery. 1748 - succeeded his father as second Earl of Egmont in the Irish peerage.
John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont (1711-1770), Statesman. Gallery portraits. All known portraits. Biography and References. Politician; sty. Viscount Perceval 1733-49, succeeded as 2nd Earl of Egmont [I] 1749; created Baron Lovel and Holland [GB] 1762; MP 1731-62; first lord of the Admiralty 1763-66; FRS 1764; married 1) 1737 Catherine (1719-52
