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Hace 14 horas · Robert Walpole managed to wind it down with minimal political and economic damage, although some losers fled to exile or committed suicide. Robert Walpole. Robert Walpole is now generally regarded as the first Prime Minister, from, 1719–1742, and indeed he invented the role.
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 ...
Hace 2 días · Mr Robert Walpole answer'd all Objections, and being strongly supported by Mr Craggs, Sir Robert Raymond, Sir Philip Yorke, and by several other Members; the Question was put upon the Motion for recommitting the Resolution about the Ingrastment, which was carry'd in the Negative, by 267 Voices against 134.
Hace 4 días · Theories abound that the ballad really aimed to criticize certain landowners or that the opera denounced (indirectly) the taxation policies of Robert Walpole. ( Oxford Music Online and Wikipedia both offer rich information on the work and its background.)
Hace 2 días · Here, during the administration of Sir Robert Walpole, in the reign of George II., John Henley, a disappointed demagogue, stood on a tub and vented his factious ebullitions, which he distinguished by the name of oratory. He is alluded to by Pope, in his "Epistle to Arbuthnot," but not in very quotable terms.
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 14 horas · 14 February 1721 [1] Place premiered. Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Original language. English. Genre. Comedy. The Refusal, Or, The Ladies Philosophy is a 1721 comedy play by the British writer Colley Cibber. It is a reworking of the 1672 farce Les Femmes Savantes by Molière, with reference to the recent South Sea Bubble.
