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    Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (/ˈsɪndʒɪn ˈbɒlɪŋbrʊk/; 16 September 1678 – 12 December 1751) was an English politician, government official and...
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    Viscount Bolingbroke is a current title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1712 for Henry St John. He was simultaneously made Baron St John, of...
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    landowner. His father was John St John, 2nd Viscount St John, half-brother of Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751). His mother was Anne...
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    Henry St John, 1st Viscount St John DL (baptized 17 October 1652 – died 8 April 1742), of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire; Battersea, Surrey; and Berkeley...
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  • Sir Henry St John, 1st Viscount St John (1652–1742), father of the 1st Viscount Bolingbroke and MP for Wootton Bassett, 1679–1700 Henry St John, 1st Viscount...
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    have contributed to their literary output. He, along with Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, contributed to the literary productions of the club. The...
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  • Herbert (later 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury) in the first half of the 17th century and ending with Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, in the middle...
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  • Henrietta St John, daughter of Henry St John, 1st Viscount St John, by his 2nd wife Angelica Pelissary. Henrietta was thus half-sister of Henry St John, 1st Viscount...
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  • Bolingbroke Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751), Tory party Jacobite grandee and British statesman Other Lords Bolingbroke, bearing the titles:...
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    February) to accept the resignations of both Harley and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke. Thomson criticizes Harley's tenure at the Northern Department...
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  • Among its first editors were philosopher and politician Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Francis Atterbury, chaplain of King William III, and the...
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  • John, American musician Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751), English statesman and philosopher Henry St. John (congressman), 19th-century...
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  • political philosophy of republicanism in the United States. Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke was especially influential in stating the need and outlining...
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  • Earl Rivers 16 April 1705 – 18 August 1712 Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke 24 October 1712 – 1714 Henry Howard, 6th Earl of Suffolk 7 January 1715...
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  • Peerage occurred on 26 July 1715 when Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, was created Earl of Bolingbroke by the Old Pretender, this title not being...
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    It was dedicated to Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (pronounced 'Bull-en-brook'), hence the opening line: "Awake, my St John...". It is an effort...
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    resentment was not confined to his speeches in parliament. With Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke he started, in December 1726, a periodical called The Craftsman...
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    Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, who was impeached and imprisoned in the Tower of London from 1715 to 1717; and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke...
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  • Polydeism Notable figures Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Matthew Tindal Voltaire Charles Blount Thomas...
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    Scurr, Ruth (2006). Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution. Henry Holt. ISBN 9780805082616. Žižek, Slavoj (2007). Robespierre: Virtue and...
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    and philosopher, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751), of Dawley House. Alexander Pope describes his friend Bolingbroke, the noble farmer...
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    heir-apparent, Henry Bolingbroke. Following Gaunt's death in 1399, his estates and titles were declared forfeit to the Crown, and his son Bolingbroke, now disinherited...
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    ": 19  — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English politician (12 December 1751), to Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield. Bolingbroke also reaffirmed...
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    former members of Harley's administration John Erskine, Earl of Mar and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke. After two years of imprisonment, in 1717...
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  • Hanover Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Christopher Wren "2005 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-21. Burns, John (16...
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  • son of John St John, 2nd Viscount St John and brother of Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge...
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    like Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke accepted pardons and returned home or took employment elsewhere. The birth of his sons Charles and Henry helped...
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    Abraham Vater, German anatomist (b. 1684) December 12 – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman, philosopher (b. 1678) December 16 –...
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    ministry in 1715. Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, was impeached, and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, suffered from an act of attainder...
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    Roman Catholic Church in the Jacobite rising. March 27 – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, flees from Great Britain to France. His part in secret...
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