Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (2 June 1689 – 16 June 1741) was an English Tory politician and peer who sat in the House of Commons...
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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 early...
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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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Harley Street is a street in Marylebone, Central London, named after Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. Since the 19th century it has...
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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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(grandson of Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds) in 1711, before her father settled on Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. They were...
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Oxford, for centuries and of the Harley family, members of which had been earls of Oxford and earls Mortimer. In the face of opposition from them, another...
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Marquess of Clare and Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The fourth earl's only child, Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles, married Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and...
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Wimpole Mews (category Streets in the City of Westminster)
Hall in Cambridgeshire, the seat of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. 17 Wimpole Mews was the home of the osteopath Stephen Ward (1912–1963)...
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and later for Leominster Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (1689–1741), son of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer Edward...
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St Peter, Vere Street (category Former Church of England church buildings)
1832 as the Oxford Chapel after its founder Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, is a former Anglican church off Oxford Street, London...
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of seeing a man jump into a "quart bottle".[citation needed] On 11 June 1734, he married Lady Margaret Harley, daughter of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of...
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Robert Walpole (redirect from Premiership of Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford)
investigate the actions of the previous Tory ministry in 1715. Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, was impeached, and Henry St John, 1st Viscount...
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Welbeck Abbey (category Grade II listed parks and gardens in Nottinghamshire)
Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer and Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles 1734 – 1785 William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland and Margaret Bentinck...
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the eldest son of William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland and "the richest woman in great Britain" Lady Margaret Cavendish-Harley and inherited many lands...
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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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Lord Charles Bentinck (category Children of prime ministers of Great Britain)
seat he held until 1812. He served under the Earl of Liverpool as Treasurer of the Household between 1812 and 1826. Bentinck married, firstly, Georgiana...
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Wimpole Estate (category Grade I listed parks and gardens in Cambridgeshire)
the possession of her husband Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. In 1740, Edward sold Wimpole to Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, in...
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Down Hall (category Grade II listed parks and gardens in Essex)
passed to his friend Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, who undertook further rebuilding. Twenty years later, and with the house still...
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Margaret Street, London (category Streets in the City of Westminster)
Street and Oxford Street. The street is named after Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, daughter of the local landowner Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford...
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James Gibbs (category Alumni of the University of Aberdeen)
time he met Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, who would be a powerful patron and friend (Gibbs would later remodel the Earl's house Wimpole...
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Fitzrovia (category Districts of the London Borough of Camden)
Portland Street and Harley Street. Margaret Harley was daughter of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, for whom Oxford Street (the southern...
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William Oldys (category English officers of arms)
collections to Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, who appointed him his literary secretary in 1738. Three years later Harley died, and from that...
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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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Oxford and Countess Mortimer, who married Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, landowner Chandos Street – after the Duke of Chandos, who built...
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of London in the 1670s Orange Yard Oxford Circus, Oxford Circus Avenue and Oxford Street – after Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer who...
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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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Humfrey Wanley (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
Harley to catalogue the Harleian manuscripts, and he then became "library-keeper" in turn to him and his son, the Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and...
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Elizabeth Montagu (category Members of the Blue Stockings Society)
friend of Lady Margaret Harley, later the Duchess of Portland, the only surviving child of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. Lady Margaret...
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