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Hace 2 días · Robert Walpole 1st Earl of Orford MP for King's Lynn: 3 April 1721 12 February 1742 Whig: Walpole–Townshend: George II (1727–1760) Walpole: Samuel Sandys MP for Worcester: 12 February 1742 12 December 1743 Whig: Carteret Henry Pelham MP for Sussex: 12 December 1743 8 March 1754 † Whig: Broad Bottom (I & II) William Lee Lord Chief Justice ...
Hace 2 días · 42. THE AUSTIN FRIARS OF ORFORD. A priory of Austin Friars was founded at Orford in the reign of Edward I. Robert de Hewell, in 1295, gave them a plot of ground in Orford, sixteen perches square, whereon to build. (fn. 1) The Austin Friars of Orford obtained pardon in 1314 for having acquired, without licence, a small plot of land from John ...
Hace 2 días · Here she soon made herself a name, and became so popular, that she obtained access to the first circles. She became the mistress of General Churchill, a nephew of the great Duke of Marlborough, by whom she had a son, who married a natural daughter of Sir Robert Walpole, and obtained the rank and precedence of an earl's daughter.
Hace 17 horas · George II enhanced the stability of the constitutional system, with a government run by Robert Walpole during the period 1730–1742. He built up the First British Empire , strengthening the colonies in the Caribbean and North America.
Hace 3 días · The new earl of Norfolk, he maintains, was certainly a good citizen, especially during Edward's absence in the years to 1274 and in Wales and Scotland, for example. He was placed under pressure by the king's quo warranto campaign and by demands that he pay back his debts to the Exchequer, the sum of which he disagreed with on more than one occasion.
Hace 3 días · Her first ministry was predominantly Tory, and contained such High Tories as Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, and her uncle Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester. It was headed by Lord Treasurer Lord Godolphin and Anne's favourite the Duke of Marlborough , who were considered moderate Tories, along with the Speaker of the House of Commons , Robert Harley .
Hace 2 días · The church of Battersea is dedicated to St. Mary; it is in the diocese of Winchester, and in the deanery of Southwark; the benefice is a vicarage. Laurence, Abbot of Westminster, first procured the appropriation of the great tithes for that abbey about the year 1159 (fn. 22) .
