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modifier - modifier le code - modifier Wikidata Robert Harley (5 décembre 1661 – 21 mai 1724), 1 er comte d'Oxford et comte Mortimer , est un homme politique anglais de l'époque de la fin de la Révolution financière britannique . Biographie [modifier | modifier le code] D'abord élu du parti Whig , après avoir combattu aux côtés de Guillaume III d'Orange , lors de la Glorieuse ...
The Harley (or Oxford–Bolingbroke) ministry was the British government that existed between 1710 and 1714 in the reign of Queen Anne. It was headed by Robert Harley (from 1711, Earl of Oxford) and composed largely of Tories. Harley was a former Whig who had changed sides, bringing down the seemingly powerful Whig Junto and their moderate Tory ...
primary name:Harley, Robert. other name:(Earl of) Oxford. Details. individual; politician/statesman; collector; British; Male. Life dates. 1661-1724. Biography. Politician; MP for Tregony, 1689-90 and for New Radnor Bouroughs, 1690-1711. Speaker of the House of Commons, 1701-05; Secretary of State for the North, 1704–8; Commissioner for the ...
On close examination Harley did not intend to make such drastic changes initially. On the contrary, he wished to limit them to the removal of the earl of Sunderland from his secretaryship of state and the earl of Godolphin from the lord treasurership, and to curtail, if not eliminate, the influence of the duke of Marlborough and his duchess in affairs of state.
23 de may. de 2023 · Another contemporary compared Robert Harley with the shrewdness of Oliver Cromwell by stating that he ‘spends more in spies than Cromwell ever did’.2 Certainly, Robert Harley had a personal reputation for the values that might well be thought essential to any early modern intelligencer: he was devious, full of trickery, and all too fond of secrecy.
A week earlier, on 10 Dec. 1697, in a committee of the whole on the King’s Speech, Harley had raised the question of disbandment, following the Peace of Ryswick. According to one observer, he ‘opened the debate on that part relating to the army, and showed the danger and mischief of a standing army in time of peace’.
Harley, Robert (1661-1724). Conde de Oxford, hombre de Estado inglés, nacido en 1661 y muerto en 1724. Fue ministro de la reina Ana; destruyó la influencia de los Marlborough y de los Godolphin en 1710; creó las loterías reales para llenar el tesoro de la reina, y negoció el Tratado de Utrecht en 1713.
