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| x Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough |
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Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough and 1st Earl of Monmouth, KG, PC (1658 – 25 October 1735) was an English nobleman and military leader. He was the son of John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt, and his wife Elizabeth, the daughter and sole...
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| x Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham |
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Field Marshal Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham PC (24 October 1675 – 14 September 1749) was a British soldier and Whig politician. He was known for his ownership of and modifications to the estate at Stowe and for serving as a political mentor to...
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| x Abraham Stanyan |
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Abraham Stanyan (c. 1669–1732) was an English politician and diplomat.
After becoming a student in the Middle Temple, he served as secretary to Sir William Trumbull as Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and later to the Earl of Manchester as...
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| x Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton |
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Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexington PC (6 January 1662 – 19 September 1723) was an English diplomat.
He was the son of Robert Sutton, 1st Baron Lexington and his third wife Mary St. Leger.
On 14 September 1691, he married Margaret, (d. April 1703),...
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| x James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave |
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Sir James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave KG PC (1684 – 11 April 1741) was a British ambassador.
Waldegrave was the son of the 1st Baron Waldegrave and Henrietta FitzJames, the illegitimate daughter of James II and Arabella Churchill.
Waldegrave...
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| x Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham |
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Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, KB, PC (ca. 1695 – 30 September 1770) was a British diplomatist and politician. He was a younger son of Sir William Robinson, Bt. (1655–1736) of Newby, Yorkshire, who was member of parliament for York from 1697...
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| x Robert Murray Keith |
Robert Murray Keith (died 1774) was a British diplomat. He was descended from a younger son of the 2nd Earl Marischal.
Keith was minister in Vienna in 1748 and from 1753 Minster-plenipotentary. In 1757, he transferred to St. Petersburg (arriving in...
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| x John Carmichael, 3rd Earl of Hyndford |
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John Carmichael, 3rd Earl of Hyndford PC, KT (15 March 1701 – 19 July 1767), styled Viscount of Inglisberry between 1710 and 1737, was a Scottish nobleman and diplomat.
He was son of James Carmichael, 2nd Earl of Hyndford and succeeded to the...
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| x David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield |
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David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield KT, PC (9 October 1727 – 1 September 1796), known from 1748 to 1793 as The Viscount Stormont, was a British politician. He succeeded to both the Mansfield and Stormont lines of the Murray family, inheriting two...
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| x Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin |
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Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine ( /ˈɛlɡɪn/; 20 July 1766 - 14 November 1841) was a Scottish nobleman and diplomat, known for the removal of marble sculptures (also known as the Elgin Marbles) from the Parthenon in Athens....
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Constantinople | Ottoman Empire | 1799 |
| x George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke |
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General George Augustus Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke and 8th Earl of Montgomery, KG, PC (10 September 1759 – 26 October 1827) was a British peer, army officer and politician.
Born Lord Herbert at the family home, Wilton House in Wilton, he was the...
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| x Benjamin Bathurst |
Benjamin Bathurst (18 March 1784 - 1809?) was a British diplomatic envoy who disappeared in Germany during the Napoleonic Wars. He was the third son of Henry Bathurst, Bishop of Norwich.
Bathurst disappeared on or about 25 November 1809, sparking...
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| x George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen |
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George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen KG KT FRSE FRS PC FSA(Scot) (28 January 1784 – 14 December 1860), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British politician and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite, who served as...
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| x Charles Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry |
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Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry KG, GCB, GCH, PC (18 May 1778 – 6 March 1854), styled The Honourable Charles Stewart from 1789 until 1813 and The Honourable Sir Charles Stewart from 1813 to 1814 and known as The Lord Stewart from...
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| x Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley |
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Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley GCB (20 January 1773 – 27 April 1847) was a British diplomat and politician.
Wellesley was the fifth and youngest son of Garret Wellesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, by the Honourable Anne Hill-Trevor, eldest daughter...
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| x Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne |
Frederick James Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne PC, GCB (17 April 1782-January 29, 1853), known as the Lord Beauvale from 1839 to 1848, was a British diplomat.
Lamb was a younger son of Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne, and his wife Elizabeth...
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| x Robert Gordon |
Sir Robert Gordon GCB GCH PC (1791 – 8 October 1847) was a British diplomat.
Gordon was a younger son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo (himself the eldest son of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen) and a brother of the 4th Earl of Aberdeen. From 1826 to 1828, he...
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British Embassy in Brasilia (formerly in Rio de Janeiro) | Brazil | 1826 | |
| British Embassy in Constantinople | Ottoman Empire | 1828 | |||
| British Embassy in Vienna | Austria | 1841 | |||
| x John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby |
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John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby, GCB (1770 – 22 February 1855) was a longtime British diplomat and politician.
Ponsonby, eldest son of the 1st Baron Ponsonby, and brother of Sir William Ponsonby , was born about 1770. He served as a Member of...
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British Embassy in Brasilia (formerly in Rio de Janeiro) | Brazil | 1828 |
| British Embassy in Constantinople | Ottoman Empire | Nov 27, 1822 | |||
| British Embassy in Vienna | Austria | Aug 10, 1846 | |||
| x John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland |
General John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland GCB, GCH, PC (2 February 1784 – 16 October 1859), styled Lord Burghersh until 1841, was a British soldier, politician, diplomat and musician.
Styled Lord Burghersh from birth, he was born at Sackville...
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| x George Hamilton Seymour |
Sir George Hamilton Seymour GCB, GCH, PC (21 September 1797-2 February 1880) was a British diplomat.
Seymour was the son of Lord George Seymour and Isabella, daughter of Reverend the Honourable William Hamilton. He married the Honourable Gertrude,...
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| x Augustus Loftus |
Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus GCB, PC (4 October 1817 – 7 March 1904) was a British diplomat and colonial administrator.
Loftus was the fourth son of John Loftus, 2nd Marquess of Ely. He served in numerous diplomatic posts,...
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| x John Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield |
John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield, GCB, PC, DL (12 November 1802 – 17 August 1879) was a British peer and diplomatist.
Bloomfield was the eldest son of Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield and his wife Hariott, the oldest...
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| x Andrew Buchanan |
Sir Andrew Buchanan, 1st Baronet, GCB (7 May 1807 – 12 November 1882) was a British diplomat and baronet.
Buchanan was the only son of James Buchanan of Blairvadoch, Ardinconnal, Dumbartonshire, and Janet, eldest daughter of James Sinclair, 12th...
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| x Henry Elliot |
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Sir Henry George Elliot (30 June 1817–30 March 1907) was a British diplomat. He was the second son of Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto. He was most noted for his period as ambassador at Constantinople, and his participation in the...
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| x Augustus Berkeley Paget |
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Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget GCB (16 April 1823 – 11 July 1896) was the son of Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Paget and Lady Augusta Fane, nephew of General Sir Edward Paget and grandson of The 1st Earl of Uxbridge.
Paget was appointed a member of Queen...
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| x Francis Richard Plunkett |
Sir Francis Richard Plunkett KCMG (1835-1907) was a British diplomat.
Plunkett was born on February 3, 1835 at Corbalton Hall in County Meath, Ireland.
In 1873, Plunkett was nominated as Secretary of Legation in Tokyo under Sir Harry Parkes. He left...
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| x William Edward Goschen |
Sir William Edward Goschen, 1st Baronet GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC (18 July 1847 – 20 May 1924), was a British diplomat.
Goschen was born at Eltham, England, the twelfth child and sixth son of Wilhelm Heinrich Göschen, originally of Leipzig, Saxony, and...
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| x Eric Phipps |
Sir Eric Clare Edmund Phipps GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC (October 27, 1875–August 13, 1945) was a British diplomat.
Phipps was the son of Sir Constantine Phipps, later British Ambassador to Belgium, and his wife Maria Jane (née Miller Mundy). Henry Phipps,...
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| x Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia |
Harold Anthony Caccia, Baron Caccia, GCMG, GCVO, GCStJ (21 December 1905 Pachmarhi, India; 31 October 1990 Builth Wells, Wales) was a British diplomat.
He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford. He played cricket for Oxfordshire in...
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| x Michael Alexander |
Sir Michael Alexander (19 June 1936 – 1 June 2002) was a British diplomat. He was the foreign policy secretary to Margaret Thatcher and the UK ambassador to NATO.
He competed as a fencer for Great Britain at the 1960 Summer Olympics, winning a...
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| x Anthony Figgis |
Sir Anthony Figgis, KCVO CMG (born October 1940) was Her Majesty's Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom from 2001 to 2008.
Unusually, he also held the post of Her Majesty's Vice-Marshal of the...
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| x Terence Charles Bacon |
Terence Charles Bacon is a former Canadian diplomat. He was concurrently High Commissioner to Zambia and Malawi and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Mozambique. He was also High Commissioner to Zimbabwe and Ambassador Extraordinary...
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| x James Byron Bissett |
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James Byron Bissett is a former Canadian diplomat. He was High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago and later Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Yugoslavia, Albania, and Bulgaria.
James Bissett joined the Canadian government in 1956. He...
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| x Jeremy Kinsman |
Jeremy K.B. Kinsman (born January 28, 1942) is a retired Canadian career diplomat. He was the Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (2000-2002) and the Canadian Ambassador to the European Union (2002-2006).
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he...
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| x H. Robert Fowler |
Hiram Robert Fowler (February 7, 1851 - January 5, 1926) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born near Eddyville, Illinois, Fowler attended the public schools of his native city, and graduated from the Illinois Normal University at Normal in...
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| x Alex Himelfarb |
Alexander "Alex" Himelfarb, (born 1947) is a senior Canadian civil servant and academic.
Born in Germany, he was raised and educated in Toronto. He received a Ph.D in sociology from University of Toronto. In 1981, he married Frum Himelfarb, not his...
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| x Charles Jost Burchell |
Charles Jost Burchell, PC (1 July 1876 – 12 August 1967) was a Canadian diplomat. He served as Canada's first High Commissioner to Australia from 1939 to 1941 and as Canada's first and last High Commissioner to the Dominion of Newfoundland serving...
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| x Victor Odlum |
Victor Wentworth Odlum, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. (21 October 1880 – 4 April 1971) was a Canadian journalist, soldier, and diplomat. He was a prominent member of the business and political elite of Vancouver, British Columbia from the 1920s until his...
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| x Edward Schreyer |
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Edward Richard Schreyer PC CC CMM OM CD (born December 21, 1935), commonly known as Ed Schreyer, is a Canadian politician, diplomat, and statesman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 22nd since Canadian Confederation.
Schreyer was born and...
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| x Leonard Michael Berry |
Leonard Michael Berry is a former Canadian diplomat. He was High Commissioner to Singapore then the Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Subsequently he became the High Commissioner...
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| x James K. Bartleman |
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James Karl Bartleman, OC O.Ont (born 24 December 1939 in Orillia, Ontario) is a Canadian diplomat, author, and was the 27th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 2002 to 2007.
James Bartleman grew up in the Muskoka town of Port Carling, and is a...
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| x Michael Leir |
Michael Leir (born 1949) is the current Canadian High Commissioner to Australia, and also represents Canada in the following nations: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Palau and Nauru. He...
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| x Georges Vanier |
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Major-General Georges-Philéas Vanier PC DSO MC* CD (April 23, 1888 – March 5, 1967) was a Canadian soldier and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 19th since Canadian Confederation.
Vanier was born and educated in Quebec, and,...
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| x Pierre Dupuy |
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Pierre Dupuy, CC (July 9, 1896 – May 21, 1969) was a Canadian diplomat. His most noted achievement was as the Commissioner General of Expo 67.
Dupuy was born in Montreal, in 1896. He studied law and international law at the Université de Montréal...
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| x Michel Dupuy |
Michel Dupuy, PC (born in Paris, France on January 11, 1930) is a Canadian diplomat, journalist, academic and politician.
Dupuy was a long time diplomat in the Department of External Affairs. He served as Ambassador to the United Nations from 1980...
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| x Lucien Bouchard |
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Lucien Bouchard, PC GOQ (French pronunciation: [lysjɛ̃ buʃaʁ]; born December 22, 1938) is a Canadian lawyer, diplomat, politician and former Minister of the Environment of the Canadian Federal Government. He was the Leader of the Opposition in the...
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| x Claude Laverdure |
Claude Laverdure was Canada's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to France from 2003 until 2007 and was also ambassador to Luxembourg. He was previously Ambassador to Belgium, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and to...
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| x Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester |
Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester (c. 1460 – 15 March 1526) was the legitimised son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset and Joan Hill.
He was born around 1460 to Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset and Joan Hill. He may have married three...
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| x Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk |
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Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, 1st Viscount Lisle, KG (c. 1484 – 22 August 1545) was the son of Sir William Brandon and Elizabeth Bruyn. Through his third wife Mary Tudor he was brother-in-law to Henry VIII. His father was the standard-bearer...
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| x Nicholas Throckmorton |
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Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (or Throgmorton) (c. 1515/1516 – 12 February 1571) was an English diplomat and politician, who was an ambassador to France and played a key role in the relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots.
Nicholas...
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| x Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys |
Henry Norris (or Norreys), Baron Norris (1525 – 7 May 1601) belonged to an old Berkshire family, many members of which had held positions at the English court. He was the son of Sir Henry Norreys, who was beheaded for his supposed adultery with...
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| x Francis Walsingham |
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Sir Francis Walsingham (c. 1532 – 6 April 1590) was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 20 December 1573 until his death, and is popularly remembered as her "spymaster".
Born to a well-connected family of gentry, Walsingham...
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| x Edward Barrett, 1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh |
Edward Barrett, 1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh, PC (21 June 1581 – buried 2 January 1645) was an English politician.
Barrett was the son of Charles Barrett of Belhouse, Essex and his wife Christian Mildmay (a daughter of Sir Walter Mildmay). He...
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| x Henry Savile |
Henry Savile (1642 – 6 October 1687) was an English courtier, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1673 to 1679.
Savile was the third son of Sir William Savile, 3rd Baronet and his wife Anne Coventry. His elder brother was...
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| x Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston |
Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston PC (24 September 1648–1695) was an English politician and diplomat. He became a Jacobite conspirator, but his reputation in the Jacobite community suffered when he gave evidence against his co-conspirators in...
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| x William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland |
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Hans William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, Baron Bentinck of Diepenheim and Schoonheten, KG, PC (20 July 1649, Diepenheim, Overijssel – 23 November 1709) was a Dutch and English nobleman who became in an early stage the favourite of William,...
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| x Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey |
Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey (c. 1656 – 25 August 1711) son of Sir Edward Villiers (1620–1689) of Richmond and Frances Howard, the youngest daughter of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk and Elizabeth Hume, was created Baron Villiers and...
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| x Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester |
Charles Edward Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester, 4th Earl of Manchester (c. 1656 – 20 January 1722), son of Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and succeeded to his father's earldom in 1683. Warmly...
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| x James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton |
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Lieutenant General Sir James Douglas-Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton and 1st Duke of Brandon KG KT (11 April 1658 – 15 November 1712) was a Scottish nobleman, the Premier Peer of Scotland and Keeper of the Palace of Holyroodhouse. He was a Master of...
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| x Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury |
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Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, KG, PC (24 July 1660 – 1 February 1718) was an English statesman. Born to Roman Catholic parents, he remained in that faith until 1679 when—during the time of the Popish Plot and following the advice of the...
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