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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    across the Brandywine river. In birth order: Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751), politician and philosopher Henry Octavius Coxe (1811–1881)...
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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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