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Hace 2 días · 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.
My son (10) and I absolutely love Totalis Rankium, Rex Factor, and those podcasts and have started our own tribute to them: Prime Factors, ranking the UK Prime Ministers from Robert Walpole to Rishi Sunak. We've just completed our fourth episode to review and rank Spencer Compton (Earl of Wilmington), the second Prime Minister. For all that ...
Hace 4 días · Added problems for Cibber came on the first night of the production when political opponents of his (most probably over his association with the Whig leader Robert Walpole) began heckling and drowning out the performance.
- 14 February 1721
- English
- Comedy
- Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Hace 3 días · Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister, who used the Order of the Bath as a source of political patronage The use of honours in the early eighteenth century differed considerably from the modern honours system in which hundreds, if not thousands, of people each year receive honours on the basis of deserving accomplishments.
Hace 5 días · Robert Walpole, Esq. son and heir of Calybut, married Susan, daughter of Sir Edward Barkham of Southacre, Knt. and died in 1663, and Susan in 1622, and buried at Houghton.
Hace 3 días · Pupils included the prime minister Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (1757-1844), in 1773-4, the diplomat and collector Thomas Bruce, earl of Elgin (1766-1841), the antiquary Barré Charles Roberts (1789-1810) from 1799 to 1805, and the soldier Sir Robert Walpole (1808-76).
Hace 4 días · AN EXACT LIST OF THE Knights and Commissioners of Shires, Citizens and Burgesses, of the first Parliament of King George II. summoned to meet at Westminster on the 23d of January, 1727-8. Bedfordshire. SIR Rowland Alston, Bart. Hon. Pattee Byng, Esq; succeeded his Father as Viscount Torrington.
