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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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#OnThisDay 1783 the House of Lords debated the #election bribery bill. The earl of Sandwich spoke against lambasting it as:
"a bill of absurdities & such as was fraught with much mischief to the constitutional freedom of election"
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"The liberty of the press is the birth-right of a Briton, and is justly esteemed the firmest bulwark of the liberties of this country". Opening line of John Wilkes's #newspaper, The North Briton No.1 published #OnThisDay 1762
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In the pre-reform House of Commons #Devon was well-represented: 14 boroughs returned MPs though on limited franchises. Thomas Pitt found at #Okehampton
"The corporation consists of 16 persons, 2 of them were sick, 1 of them was run away for debt"
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"his choice of words was perfect, his voice beautiful, & his way of putting aside the question when he chose, & fascinating the minds of men, astounding."
Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire, on #PrimeMinister Pitt the Younger born #OTD 1759
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