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First Marquis of Landsdowne and second Earl of Shelburne. Secretary of State for the Southern Department, 30 July 1766-20 Oct 1768 (resigned post). Later appointed Home Secretary, Mar-July 1782, and Prime Minister, July 1782-Apr 1783. Biography: ODNB link for Petty, William (1737-1805) 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, statesman: References: DNB; NCA ...
He was knighted in 1661. He was the great-grandfather of the future Prime Minister, William Petty Fitzmaurice, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Landsdowne. Education Already at his age of 12, Petty was an able smith, clockmaker and joiner. In 1637, he became a cabin boy.
28 de sept. de 2019 · commissioned by William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne 25 July 1930: purchased by Lathom at the sale of the collection of Fritz Jung at Christie's , London , lot no. 189, for 260 guinea s 19 April 1934: purchased by A. L. Nicholson at the sale of the collection of the American Art Association at the Ehrich Sale, New York , lot no. 112
Sir William Petty. It is not surprising that the Marquis of Lansdowne wanted to commemorate Sir William Petty, for his ancestor was a remarkable man. Born the son of a lowly cloth worker, Petty studied to become a physician and was appointed as Professor of Anatomy at Oxford. Oliver Cromwell made him Physician-General to his army in Ireland.
When Henry William Edmund Petty-FitzMaurice 6th Marquess of Lansdowne was born on 14 January 1872, in Lansdown, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, his father, Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, was 27 and his mother, Lady Maud Evelyn Hamilton, was 21. He married Elizabeth Caroline Hope on 16 February 1904.
William Petty FitzMaurice (2 de mayo de 1737, Dublín – 7 de mayo de 1805, Berkeley Square, Londres), estadista británico, es conocido con el sobrenombre de conde Shelburne de 1761 a 1784 fecha en la cual le nombraron marqués de Lansdowne, transmitido por su esposa Sophia Carteret hija de John Carteret, segundo conde Granville por herencia de la familia Granville. 15 relaciones.
Sir William Petty (1623–1687) is generally known to historians of economic thought as an early contributor to classical political economy. In fact, Karl Marx claimed—rightly, I believe—that Petty was the founder of that school of thought (Marx 1867, p. 81).
