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The History of Parliament's House of Lords 1660-1832 section, researching the #Lords in the #C18th; currently working on 1715-90 #Georgian #Parliament #HistParl
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Sir Watkin Lewes, staunch supporter of Wilkes, was elected in 1780 as the first Welsh Lord Mayor of London since 1613.
He was often depicted with a leek.
His end was rather sad - arrested on the hustings in 1802, he died in the Fleet Debtors' Prison.

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Benjamin Franklin, born 1706, was friends with several parliamentarians. One, John Walsh, MP for was a keen scientist and shared his findings on the properties of electric eels with Franklin, for which the awarded him the Copley Gold Medal

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William Hogarth, died in the small hours 1764 (or very late on the 25th) provided us with innumerable views of the world, including one of the best series on what it was like to vote in one of their elections

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Died 1719 "without a groan" George Smalridge, bishop of Bristol.
Very wrong, but always struggle not to equate him with von Smallhausen of Allo Allo fame...

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New (almost) Truss's birthday (26 July) is the anniversary of the first (recorded) women's match, played near Guildford in 1745.

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Was Louis XIV (died 1715) the worst best friend the Stuarts could have hoped for?
The (secret) Treaty of Dover committed Charles II to converting to catholicism & relying on a French pension, while James II was left an obvious target for William of Orange.

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19th-century sketch of someone in a Louis XIV featuring some fairly nifty boots, which would at least keep the rain off the toes
1715

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Died 1688 John Bunyan, teenage soldier in the New Model Army, preacher & writer best known for the Pilgrim's Progress

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James Gillray, pre-eminent caricaturist of the was born 1756.
During his last few years he struggled with his mental health & was cared for by long-term landlady & likely partner, who owned the shop where his prints were displayed.

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