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    Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, KG PC FRS (5 December 1661 – 21 May 1724) was an English statesman and peer of the late Stuart and...
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    1711 to 1724. Edward Harley was born on 2 June 1689. He was the only son of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer and his first wife Elizabeth...
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    Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1711 for the statesman Robert Harley, with remainder, failing...
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  • Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (c. 1699 – 11 April 1755) was a British peer and Member of Parliament. He was the nephew of Britain's...
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    Peerage of Great Britain for Robert Harley in 1711. It became extinct in 1853. After the extinction of the earls of Oxford and earls Mortimer, former...
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    Edward Harley, 5th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (20 February 1773 – 28 December 1848) was an English peer. Harley was the son of John Harley (dean of Windsor)...
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    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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    carucates of land from his brother, which was confirmed by King Alexander III. In 1711, the unofficial prime minister Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl...
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    Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903), British statesman, serving as Prime Minister three times for a total Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (1661–1724)...
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    daughter of William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, 16 September 1820; had issue: George Cavendish-Bentinck, ancestor of the 8th and 9th dukes of Portland...
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    either to Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (died 1724), or to his son, Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (died 1741)...
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    Francis Gastrell (category Bishops of Chester)
    1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, when Harley was Speaker of the House of Commons. He was born on 10 May 1662 at Slapton, Northamptonshire and educated...
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    in the pillory, Defoe went into Newgate Prison. Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, brokered his release in exchange for Defoe's cooperation...
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    Kildare Poems (redirect from Ms Harley 913)
    of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, whose library was acquired by the British Museum in 1754. A first modern printed edition of the...
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    Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, 3rd Earl of Kent, KG, Earl Marshal (8 September 1372 – 7 January 1400) was an English nobleman and courtier. Born on...
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  • Caroline of Ansbach John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough George I of Great Britain George II of Great Britain Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer...
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    Nicholas Hoult (category Alumni of the Sylvia Young Theatre School)
    drama about Anne, Queen of Great Britain, Hoult played the supporting role of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. He next voiced Fiver...
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    Albemarle Street (category Streets in the City of Westminster)
    avoid further incidents of such congestion. Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (1661–1724), a leading minister of Queen Anne, had a house...
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    properties. His full titles were Duke of Portland, Marquess of Titchfield, Earl of Portland, Viscount Woodstock, and Baron Cirencester. The Most Honourable...
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    1267–1274: Edward I of England (first son of Henry III) 1274–1296: Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Leicester and of Lancaster (second son of Henry III & brother...
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  • of Parliament for Radnor Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (1661–1724), Member of Parliament for Radnor and Tregony Robert Harley (c...
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    Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (b. 1662) May 21 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, English statesman (b. 1661) June...
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    Lord Treasurer, Robert Harley, who was raised to the peerage as the Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. "HARLEY, Sir Robert (1579-1656), of Brampton Bryan...
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    Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
    restoration of his family's title to Maryland was the question of religion. Towards the end of 1713 he began to make overtures to Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford...
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  • The Favourite (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough Nicholas Hoult as Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer Joe Alwyn as Samuel Masham, 1st Baron Masham James...
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  • 1712 in literature (category Years of the 18th century in literature)
    on Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, in what becomes known as the Bandbox Plot. November 7 – Charles Johnson's dramatisation of episodes...
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  • this period, several men of great force rose under the leadership of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, and Henry St. John, the Viscount...
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    1st Earl Cowper, PC, KC, FRS (/ˈkuːpər/ KOO-pər; c. 1665 – 10 October 1723) was an English politician who became the first Lord High Chancellor of Great...
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  • 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. Their daughter, Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley, who married William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland. The title became...
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    collection of the Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer; and the King's Library of George III. The British Library is one of six legal deposit...
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