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Felix opportunitate mortis, Henry Pelham, ‘that often underrated minister’, died unexpectedly 6 Mar. 1754, on the eve of the general election for which he had been preparing, the first prime minister who ‘had the honour of dying a commoner’.
Henry Pelham FRS was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1743 until his death in 1754. He was the younger brother of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, who served in Pelham's government and succeeded him as prime minister. Pelham is generally considered to have been Britain's third prime minister, after Robert Walpole and the Earl of Wilmington.
Henry Pelham. (1695?-1754), Prime Minister. Early Georgian Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter in 6 portraits. A Whig statesman, who served as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1743 and Robert Walpole 's successor as Prime Minister from 1743 to 1754. Pelham was in favour of peace, yet the 1740s presented several ...
Henry Pelham ( 25 de setembro de 1694 – 6 de março de 1754) foi um político britânico whig, foi primeiro-ministro da Grã-Bretanha de 1743 até sua morte, em 1754. [ 1] Era o irmão mais novo de Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1º Duque de Newcastle-upon-Tyne, que também foi primeiro-ministro. [ 1] Entrou para o Parlamento em 1717, por Seaford ...
16 de ene. de 2014 · In most histories of Great Britain in the eighteenth century the ministry of Henry Pelham, 1743 to 1754, is accorded small space. For example, Basil Williams' The Whig Supremacy, in the Oxford History of England, devotes only slightly more than thirty pages to these eleven years.
Henry Pelham, era il figlio minore di Thomas Pelham, I barone Pelham di Laughton e di sua moglie, lady Grace Holles, figlia di Gilbert Holles, III conte di Clare e di Grace Pierrepont. Egli venne educato alla Westminster School per poi passare al college di Hart Hall, Oxford che ancora oggi lo onora con una società sportiva locale che porta il ...
Henry Pelham (February 14, 1748/49 – 1806) was an American painter, engraver, and cartographer active during the late 18th century. Pelham's many illuminating letters, especially to his half-brother John Singleton Copley , provide an important contemporary perspective of the events of the American Revolution .
