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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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Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham PC (24 October 1675 – 14 September 1749) was a British soldier and politician. He was known for his ownership of and modifications to the estate at Stowe and for serving as a political mentor to the young William...
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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 Lexinton PC (6 January 1662 – 19 September 1723) was an English diplomat.
He was the son of Robert Sutton, 1st Baron Lexinton and his third wife Mary St. Leger.
On 14 September 1691, he married Margaret Hungerford (d. April...
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| x James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave |
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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 (c. 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 to...
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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 (1701-1767), was a Scottish nobleman and diplomat.
He was son of James Carmichael, 2nd Earl of Hyndford and succeeded to the earldom in 1737. He was a Scottish representative peer from 1739 and sheriff of...
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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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Constantinople | Ottoman Empire | 1799 |
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine (20 July 1766, Broomhall, Fife - 14 November 1841, Paris) was a British nobleman and diplomat, known for the removal of marble sculptures (also known as the Elgin Marbles) from the...
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| x George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke |
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 (March 18, 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 FRS PC (28 January 1784 – 14 December 1860), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a Scottish politician, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite, who served as Prime Minister of the United...
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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 the youngest brother of the Duke of Wellington, and became a notable diplomat in his own right.
Educated at Eton College and at the court of the Duke of Brunswick, Wellesley...
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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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| 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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| x John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland |
General John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland GCB PC (2 February 1784 – 16 October 1859) was a British soldier and diplomat.
He was the son of the 10th Earl of Westmorland and the heiress Sarah Anne Child, daughter of the wealthy banker Sir Robert...
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| x George Hamilton Seymour |
Sir George Hamilton Seymour, GCB, GCH, PC (21 September 1797 – 2 February 1880) was a British diplomatist.
Seymour was born at Harrow, Middlesex, the eldest son of Lord George Seymour (1763-1848, the seventh son of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st...
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| x Augustus Loftus |
Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus, GCB, PC (4 October 1817 – 7 March 1904, Surrey) was the 4th son of John Loftus, 2nd Marquess of Ely. He married Emma Maria Greville, after whom the town of Emmaville, New South Wales was named in 1882....
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| x John Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield |
John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield, 2nd Baron Bloomfield, GCB, PC (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. He was educated...
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| x Andrew Buchanan |
Sir Andrew Buchanan, 1st Baronet GCB, PC (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(-Murray-Kynynmound), GCB, PC (30 June 1817 – 30 March 1907) was a British diplomat.
Elliot was the second surviving son of Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto and his wife, Mary. Educated at Eton College and...
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| x Augustus Berkeley Paget |
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Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget KCB (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 (1835-1907) was born on February 3, 1835 at Corbalton Hall in County Meath, Ireland. In 1873 he was nominated as Secretary of Legation in Tokyo under Sir Harry Parkes. He left Tokyo in 1876 and served as Diplomatic...
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| x William Edward Goschen |
Sir William Edward Goschen, 1st Baronet GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC (Oberlößnitz/Radebeul, 18 July 1847 – London, 20 May 1924), was a British diplomat. He was the younger brother of the Conservative politician George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen.
[William]...
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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 – 31 October 1990) was a British diplomat.
He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford. He married Anne Catherine Barstow, daughter of George Lewis Barstow and...
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| x Michael Alexander |
Sir Michael O'Donel Bjarne Alexander, GCMG (19 June 1936 – 1 June 2002) was a British diplomat.
Alexander was born at 1a Barnes Close, Winchester, the eldest son of Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (1909–1974), chess grandmaster and cryptographer, and...
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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.
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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 former 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...
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| x Charles Jost Burchell |
Charles Jost Burchell, P.C., 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 from 1941 to 1944 and again...
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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 prominent and very active in the business and political elite of Vancouver, British Columbia up until his death in...
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| x Clay Davis |
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Senator R. Clayton "Clay" Davis is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Isiah Whitlock, Jr. Davis is a corrupt Maryland State Senator with a reputation for pocketing bribes. Davis however remains protected throughout the...
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| x Edward Schreyer |
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Edward Richard Schreyer PC CC CMM OM CD (born 21 December 1935) is a Canadian politician and statesman who, until 14 May 1984, served as the Governor General of Canada. He was appointed as such by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, on the recommendation...
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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, 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 member...
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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 (23 April 1888 – 5 March 1967) was a Canadian soldier and diplomat who, until his death, served as the Governor General of Canada. He was appointed as such by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, on the...
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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 |
Lucien Bouchard, PC, GOQ (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 Opposition in the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to...
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| x Claude Laverdure |
Claude Laverdure is Canada's current Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to France since September 15, 2003 and to Luxembourg since March 19, 1999. He was previously Ambassador to Belgium, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda,...
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| x Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester |
Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester (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 married three times, 1st...
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| x Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk |
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Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (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 of King Henry VII and...
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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) is usually remembered as the "spymaster" of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Walsingham is frequently cited as one of the earliest practitioners of modern intelligence both for espionage and for domestic...
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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 and Christian Mildmay (a sister of Sir Walter Mildmay) and as educated Queen's College, Oxford...
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| x Henry Savile |
Henry Savile (Rufford, 1641/1642 – October 6, 1687, Paris), was the third son of Sir William Savile, 3rd Baronet and Anne Coventry.
Member for Newark from 1673 to 1679, he was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household in 1680. He was subsequently...
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| x Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston |
Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston PC (24 September 1648 – 1695), was a British 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, Baron Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland, KG, PC (20 July 1649 – 23 November 1709) was a Dutch and English nobleman who became in an early stage the favourite of stadtholder William Henry, Prince of Orange. He was steady, sensible, modest...
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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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James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton and 1st Duke of Brandon, KG, KT, (11 November 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 the Great Wardrobe,...
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