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26 de dic. de 2020 · ‘An Ode to the Right Honourable Henry Pelham, Esq., on his being appointed first Commissioner of the Treasury,’ appears in the ‘Works of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams’ (1822, ii. 71–3). Garrick's well-known ode on Pelham's death was first published in the ‘London Magazine’ for March 1754 (xxiii. 135–6).
Henry Pelham (25 September 1694–6 March 1754) was a British Whig statesman. He was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 27 August 1743 to his death about ten years later. This short article about a person or group of people can be made longer.
The son of Thomas, First Baron Pelham of Laughton and Lady Grace Holles. He was the younger brother of Thomas Pelham, the Duke of Newcastle. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. Through family connections, he was quickly identified by Robert Walpole as a rising star. His first post was as a Lord of the Treasury at the tender age of 25.
Abstract. Henry Pelham is invariably listed as Britain’s third Prime Minister, but a case can certainly be made that he was virtually the second, given the ineffectiveness of his predecessor as First Lord of the Treasury, the Earl of Wilmington (see Chapter 2). The offspring of a landed family based mainly in Sussex, which had sent ...
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.
When applying for his liquor license young Henry signed his name "Henry of Pelham", winking at the fact that the recent British Prime Minister was Sir Henry Pelham. This became Henry's nom de plume and the name of the winery more than a century after he planted his first vineyards to native species of grapes. Henry Smith owned and operated the ...
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 ...
