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"she moved with a simplicity that proved her to be unconscious of the charm which bound the world to her attraction" [Morning Chronicle]: died at 3.30am #OnThisDay 1806, Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire
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John Wilkes' behaviour divided even his most loyal friends. In spring 1769 William Fitzherbert complained:
"I would have gone upon my knees for his pardon... I love him, but in the light he stands I will do as much as any man in England to oppose him"
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@TheVictCommons He wasn't the only parliamentarian notable for developing a new dog breed. According to one tradition, the 2nd duke of Newcastle bred his Clumber Spaniels from animals rescued from the French Revolution
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Wading through an index & struck by successive entries for Robert Walpole:
entertains a large company
description of house & estate
illness of
unpopular (due to the Excise)
mobbed
burnt in effigy
The life of an #18thcentury #politician in 6 movements
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"I hear today... that the duke of Buckingham... is dying... His title, I believe, will be extinct, which is all the loss he will be to the nobility or his country"
You can always rely on Lord Hervey
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#OnThisDay 1689 William III & Mary II were proclaimed King & Queen at the Banqueting House and presented with the Declaration of Rights by the marquess of Halifax as speaker of the House of Lords
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@poob2016 Definitely caricatured, but satirists in the #18thcentury often depicted postilions wearing enormous boots.
@historymatt may have more insights.

"that some of our ministers can neither dance nor sing, would not be a reproach to them, if they had but somebody with them that could": #18thcentury guidance on #diplomacy suggesting all political negotiations should conclude with a dance-off?
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#18thcentury diplomats were human: in 1727 Lord Waldegrave wrote from Paris to his contact back in #London hoping that his last dispatch "did not show the influence of #champagne"
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Nell Gwyn's parentage remains uncertain: her father might have been a royalist officer, Captain Gwyn, her grandfather possibly a canon of @ChCh_Oxford.
Pepys thought her a fine comic actress, but not so good in more dramatic parts
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