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Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow, PC (9 December 1731 – 12 September 1806), was a British lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1765 to 1778 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Thurlow.
11 de abr. de 2024 · Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow was the lord chancellor of England from June 1778 to April 1783 and from December 1783 to June 1792, who gained that office and continued to hold it under a variety of prime ministers by supporting the extreme conservatism of King George III.
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Baron Thurlow, of Thurlow in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. [1] It was created on 11 June 1792 for the lawyer and politician Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow, with remainder to his younger brothers and the heirs male of their bodies.
Edward Thurlow, a lord chancellor, was the eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Thurlow (d. 1762), incumbent successively of Little Ashfield, Suffolk, and of Thurston, Long Stratton, and Knapton, Norfolk, by Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Smith, a descendant of Sir Richard Hovell, esquire of the body to Henry V. Thurlow was born at Bracon Ash, Norfolk ...
14 de may. de 2018 · Edward Thurlow Thurlow, 1st Baron, 1731–1806, lord chancellor [1] of England. Called to the bar in 1754, he enjoyed considerable success in legal practice. He was made a king's counsel in 1762 and entered Parliament in 1765.
2 de sept. de 2018 · In 1765, when Weymouth was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland, he intended to make Thurlow chief secretary. Though Weymouth’s appointment was subsequently cancelled, he brought Thurlow into Parliament for Tamworth in December 1765. In the House he became one of the Bedford group.
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow (1731–1806) was notable for his relatively rapid rise up the social ladder and his even more rapid fall from political power, both of which are rendered clearly in Gillray’s caricatures.
