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Died #OnThisDay 1758 William Collier MP for Truro, theatre proprietor & heavy drinker:
‘I can’t say Collier is entirely in the land of the living, for it is his hour of being very drunk, but as much of him as live is entirely devoted to you’.
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1717: bill for providing a new livery for Samuel Stubbs, the royal ratcatcher comes to £13; that for Alice Bill, the herbstrewer in ordinary, on the other hand, a mere £1 18s.
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"My master told me I don't dance firmly & strongly enough." [Dudley Ryder diary]
one for @Hillary_Burlock

The clock tower (Elizabeth Tower) proved a particular headache for Charles Barry (died #OTD 1860) & others. It went through multiple re-designs, 2 'Big Bens' & someone even suggested attaching sails to it so the clock could be powered by the wind.
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Admiral Byng (executed #OTD 1757) continued to haunt the press well into the next century. His example was raised in relation to General John Whitelocke, who was cashiered in 1808 for failing in an assault on Buenos Aires
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#OnThisDay 1794 Queen Charlotte was planning ahead, selecting her 'summer silks'
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#February 1750: #London hit by earthquake, but
"This tremendous shock did not hinder 12 or 1,300 people from going to the Masquerade... & I believe they would have gone if 1,000 houses had sunk into the earth" [Thomas Wilson]
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Born #OnThisDay 1749 Charles James Fox, towering politician of the 2nd half of the #18thcentury:
"Fox’s ‘negligent grandeur’ obscured his brilliance... his oratory, ‘original, deep, subtle, vehement & expansive’... was a force to be reckoned with."
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Looking forward to presenting tomorrow at @BSECS on the impeachments of Queen Anne's former ministers & the transformation of #Westminster Hall into a court, along with @NicolaMartin14 on the earls of Sutherland & Nigel Aston on Lord George Germain.
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#OnThisDay 1789 the royal family went to the #theatre at Drury Lane for the 1st time since George III's illness. They saw the Haunted Tower by James Cobb & Who's the Dupe? by Hannah Cowley
The same day news arrived of the fall of #Brussels
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