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Date c. 1679 - 1800
Related People Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Baron Holland • Robert Walpole, 1st earl of Orford • Lord Palmerston • Charles James Fox • Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay • Richard Brinsley Sheridan • Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury • Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey • John Russell, 1st Earl Russell • Robert Harley, 1st earl of Oxford • Lord Melbourne • John George Lambton, 1st earl of Durham • Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st duke of Newcastle • Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux • James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope

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