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#OnThisDay 1715 the House of Lords debated the impeachment of the 2nd duke of Ormond. After he failed to appear to answer the charges he was #downgraded to James Butler, Yeoman, & his arms as a Knight of the Garter in St George's Windsor taken down & pulverized
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In a not very effective effort to avoid prying eyes the duchess of Beaufort (born #OTD 1711) & her lover Lord Talbot arranged assignations in the #18thcentury equivalent of a country lay-by.
Unsurprisingly the coachmen were watching & later gave evidence against.
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"forced to grapple with a problem far beyond his statesmanship & indeed well-nigh insoluble, his career was one of disaster". Died #OnThisDay 1792 former #PrimeMinister Frederick North, 2nd earl of Guilford, better known as Lord North.
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Summer 1730 & the 1st earl of Sussex makes his will insisting that his book #collection remain at his house so 'they may be always used & enjoyed' by the owner.
The 2nd & 3rd earls died without heirs; the house was demolished.
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Grenville had considered applying for a #peerage a few years before going to the Lords, but admitted that he feared it might have "the appearance of putting myself hors de combat. I am not in the same mind about it for any 10 minutes together."
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#OnThisDay 1757 Thomas Potter was elected MP for Okehampton, completing the triangular arrangement by which he had left John Wilkes his seat at #Aylesbury after Pitt the Elder quit Okehampton for Bath
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Born #OnThisDay 1757 Thomas Rowlandson, artist & caricaturist of Georgian #Britain
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"What can be more necessary... than to set people right in that which most concerns them, their religious & civil liberties & justify the proceedings of the present age by those of the past?"
John Oldmixon, Whig historian, died #OnThisDay 1742
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Died at noon #OnThisDay 1816 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, #theatre impresario, playwright & MP, whose oratory in #Parliament was second to none.
His death was "rapidly accelerated by grief, disappointment, & a deep sense of the neglect he experienced."
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"The king, during the whole action... was in the heat of it, sometimes on horseback, sometimes on foot..."
George II at the battle of Dettingen #OTD 1743
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