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My guest blog for : '“The Cause of Decency against Indecency”: Lady Chatham and the 1788 Westminster election'. https://t.co/8h6HmpNj2Y

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2018-09-06

Bristol's niece Mrs Dillon was critical of her uncle. He "cares for nothing but himself, & therefore being gratified in every wish he has, could not be otherwise, unfeeling others' woes". As a member of & an Irish bishop he is going to be a challenge!

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2018-11-07

1660 Charles II staged his formal entry into marking his restoration to the throne.
The event was carefully timed to coincide with his 30th

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2019-05-29

Died 300 years ago Meinhard Schomberg, 3rd duke of Schomberg. His father had been granted an English peerage by William III as a reward for his services in the Glorious Revolution. The 3rd duke failed to attend the Lords after 1715, unable to bear the fatigue

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2019-07-05

Like so much else about Rochester, his admission to the House of Lords was controversial as he was summoned underage & (unlike Mulgrave who was also summoned when a minor) decided to test the situation & turn up. The Lords were unhappy but the king insisted.

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2019-07-26

Died 1788 Thomas Gainsborough, unmistakable artist of the He is supposed to have painted this portrait of William Wollaston c.1759; a decade later Wollaston became MP for Read more about him below: https://t.co/c3nbkv7eon

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2019-08-02

7 Aug 1642: Sir Kenelm Digby arrested by parliament released a week later on request of House of Lords (NPG) He was re-arrested when the Civil war broke out

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2019-08-07

Kneller very helpfully painted the latest character on the anvil: William Talbot, who was successively bishop of and Notoriously ambitious, Talbot made the most of his final appointment as a 'Prince Bishop' having missed out on

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2019-08-08

Gillray, who was born 1756, caricatured the great & the good as well as depicting social scenes & more surreal subjects. He is particularly valuable for students of for his depictions of MPs mid-flow in the old House of Commons
https://t.co/ujT9ygCEKc

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2019-08-13

Born 1676 Robert Walpole, ?first 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
https://t.co/pqoeFVVVJ0

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2019-08-26

With talk of a current (in spite of the last 2 votes in another opportunity to read one of our earlier blogs on 'how to get elected' in the
https://t.co/yvVlLxWmM4

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2019-09-12

In honour of the anniversary of the death of Charles James Fox, 1806, another chance to read 's blog on the 1788 election:
https://t.co/q6EYOJBT8k

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2019-09-13

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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2019-09-30

A new reporting period & a new list of Georgian Lords to start drafting.
First out of the gate is Charles Fitzroy, duke of Southampton & Cleveland, son of Charles II & Barbara Villiers.
Even his mother thought him 'a very kockish idle boy'

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2019-10-01

Before elevation to the Lords Devonshire (who died 1764) had a 10-year career in the Commons, where he was a vigorous supporter of Walpole. He campaigned to keep Sir Robert in power decrying the ‘parcel of such shabby fellows who will not attend’ to help the cause

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2019-10-03

Making the final touches to entry on Bishop Trelawny & struck by MG Smith's conclusion in 'Fighting Joshua':
"Like the his [Trelawny's] theology was uncomplicated, unadaptable & very vulnerable"

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2019-10-22

"when the does meet, I doubt, nay hope, it will make less sensation than usual"
Horace Walpole to the earl of Strafford, 1783

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2019-11-02

Died 1723 "drowned in drink" Lord Carr Hervey, older brother of 'Lord Hervey' & MP for Bury St Edmunds
https://t.co/bL9vkaF4o9

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2019-11-14

1717 William Shippen was sent to for dubbing the King’s speech at the opening of
‘rather calculated for the meridian of Germany than that of Gt Britain’ & George ‘a stranger to our language & constitution’
https://t.co/37vIAKlH3D

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2019-11-21

"the shining light or rather the blazing star of this country" - Richard Grosvenor (later Earl Grosvenor) on William Pitt the Elder 1758 when seconding the Address in in support of the Pitt-Newcastle "the glory of this country"

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2019-11-23