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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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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Earls of Bolingbroke. Moreover, St John's nephew Sir John St John, 1st Baronet, of Lydiard Tregoze, was the ancestor of the Viscounts Bolingbroke and the...
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Vernon Henry St John, 6th Viscount Bolingbroke (1896–1974) was the fourth child of the 5th Viscount and his wife Mary Elizabeth Emily, a former domestic...
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1st Viscount St John (1652–1742), father of the 1st Viscount Bolingbroke and MP for Wootton Bassett, 1679–1700 Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751)...
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Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke, 3rd Viscount St John (21 December 1732 – 5 May 1787), was a British peer and landowner. His father was John...
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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 recognised...
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Earl of Jersey (redirect from Viscount Villiers)
The earldom was created in 1697 for the statesman Edward Villiers, 1st Viscount Villiers, Ambassador to France from 1698 to 1699 and Secretary of State...
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Earl of Catherlough (redirect from Viscount Barrells)
John, 1st Viscount St John, by his 2nd wife Angelica Pelissary. Henrietta was thus half-sister of Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, the son of...
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Country Party (Britain) (section Bolingbroke)
philosophy of republicanism in the United States. Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke was especially influential in stating the need and outlining the...
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Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751), Tory party Jacobite grandee and British statesman Other Lords Bolingbroke, bearing the titles: Earl of Bolingbroke Viscount...
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among Viscounts is: Viscounts in the Peerage of England Viscounts in the Peerage of Scotland Viscounts in the Peerage of Great Britain Viscounts in the...
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Henry St John, 4th Viscount Bolingbroke (6 March 1786 – 1 October 1851) was the son of George Richard St John, 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke and Charlotte Collins...
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George Richard St John, 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke and 4th Viscount St John (5 March 1761 – 11 December 1824), styled The Honourable George St John from...
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Oxford English Dictionary quotes a 1738 essay by Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke to the effect that casuistry "destroys, by distinctions and exceptions...
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John St John (died c. 1482), was the ancestor of the Viscounts Grandison and the Viscounts Bolingbroke and St John. Oliver St John, 1st Baron St John of...
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Henry Mildmay St John (1820–1899) became 5th Viscount Bolingbroke on the death of his father, the 4th Viscount, in 1851. He took his seat in the House of...
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by Harley, Chancellor of the Exchequer (later Lord Treasurer) and Viscount Bolingbroke, Secretary of State. They were backed by a strong majority in the...
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period include William Wollaston, Charles Blount, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, and, in the latter part, Peter Annet, Thomas Chubb, and Thomas Morgan...
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Harley ministry (redirect from Oxford-Bolingbroke ministry)
the Treaty of Utrecht. Foreign affairs were largely conducted by Viscount Bolingbroke. They were fiercely pressed by the Whig opposition, who used the...
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Honourable thereafter. Peers below the rank of marquess Earls and countesses, viscounts and viscountesses and barons and baronesses who hold a substantive title...
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English actress and singer Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke George St John, 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke Georgie Boyden St. John (1861-1899), American...
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the Hon. Charles Robert St. John, son of the 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke and the Viscountess Bolingbroke, Baroness Hompesch. The couple had no children, although...
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to accept the resignations of both Harley and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke. Thomson criticizes Harley's tenure at the Northern Department, calling...
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England on 22 May 1611. For more information on this creation, see Viscount Bolingbroke and St John. The St John Baronetcy, of Woodford in the County of...
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contributed to their literary output. He, along with Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, contributed to the literary productions of the club. The club began...
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even rebellion against constituted authority"), III:427n31 (quoting Viscount Bolingbroke that the "collective Body of the People" had the right to "break...
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1st Earl of Clarendon Roger L'Estrange 1st Earl of Rochester 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Samuel Johnson 3rd Earl of Bute 1st Duke of Wellington Walter Scott...
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Isaac Newton Peter the Great Sophia of Hanover Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Christopher Wren "2005 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without...
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Alexander Pope in 1733–1734. It was dedicated to Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (pronounced 'Bull-en-brook'), hence the opening line: "Awake, my...
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