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Died #OnThisDay 1723 "drowned in drink" Lord Carr Hervey, older brother of 'Lord Hervey' & MP for Bury St Edmunds
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#OnThisDay 1688 the people of Brixham were greeted by the arrival of an invasion fleet: William of Orange making landfall on the fortuitous anniversary of the discovery of the #GunpowderPlot.
Now he had to wait to see who would rally to him.
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"when the #Parliament does meet, I doubt, nay hope, it will make less sensation than usual"
Horace Walpole to the earl of Strafford, #November 1783
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@jdmccafferty @RoyalStuartSoc @ColemanDennehy @17thCenturyLady The liaison had created a political crisis & York's associate Charles Berkeley (later earl of Falmouth) apparently suggested a brutal solution: he offered to kidnap & murder mother & child.
Fortunately, no one listened to him.
Read more in our Lords 1660-1715 entry on York.
The end of another reporting period, so totting up the new articles produced for the Georgian Lords: they include 'the Bug' duke of Kent; Viscount Cobham, creator of Stowe; Sir William Dawes, archbishop of York & the last of his line: Meinhard 3rd, duke of Schomberg
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In honour of the anniversary of the death of Charles James Fox, #OTD 1806, another chance to read @latelordchatham's blog on the 1788 #Westminster election:
https://t.co/q6EYOJBT8k
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With talk of a #GeneralElection current (in spite of the last 2 votes in #Parliament) another opportunity to read one of our earlier blogs on 'how to get elected' in the #18thcentury
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The Great Fire of #London broke out #OnThisDay 1666.
Lord Craven was one of those to help fight the blaze & afterwards appointed himself unofficial 'fire marshal' for the city. He also offered to fund rebuilding the Royal Exchange out of his own pocket
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Born #OnThisDay 1676 Robert Walpole, ?first #PrimeMinister of Great Britain. Over the years he acquired various epithets among them 'Leviathan' & 'Colossus'. On his fall from power he was made earl of Orford
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