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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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"A minister of state passed four & twenty hours at a public gaming table so absorbed in play that during the whole time he had no subsistence but a bit of beef between two slices of toasted bread which he ate without ever quitting the game" P-J Grosley 1772

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2020-04-30

"Service is obligation, obligation implies return. Could any man of honour profess friendship, accept the offer of his friend's whole services... avail himself of their whole utility & then tell him he could not or would not make him any return?" Bubb Dodington

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2020-04-20

"To the objects of oppression he is prodigal of pity, yet penurious of relief; & to its authors, ready to condemn yet unwilling to chastise"
Edmund Burke castigating Charles James Fox in the debate in on the French Corps Bill 1794

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2020-04-17

"his beard was unshaved...his nightgown was old & dirty; the collar of his shirt was open...the knees of his breeches were unbuttoned; his stockings were ungartered & hung low upon his legs; his slippers were down at the heels"
Charles James Fox in mode

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2020-04-17

Died 1747 Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, executed for his role in the '45 rebellion. George Selwyn was dubbed a barbarian for watching the event; he replied he 'had made amends' as he also went to see Lovat's head sewn back on again

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2020-04-09

Died 1806 Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire: incomparable icon of culture, fashion & politics

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2020-03-30

New character on the block: William Villiers, 2nd earl of (here with his sister).
He & his countess didn't get on & in his will he showed it, leaving her 1 shilling for "sufficient reasons not proper to be mentioned".

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2020-03-26

‘Opposition are in great want of a leader & a general system. One set are so candid, another so violent, a third so dissatisfied, that the scene is dreadful'
John Calcraft MP to the earl of Chatham 1771

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2020-03-26