• John Thomas Wilmot Place (June 21, 1880 – December 29, 1952) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from...
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    John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1 April 1647 (O.S.) – 26 July 1680 (O.S.)) was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court...
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    Sir Robert John Wilmot-Horton, 3rd Baronet, GCH, PC, FRS (21 December 1784 – 31 May 1841), born Robert John Wilmot, was a British politician, sociopolitical...
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    The conflict over the Wilmot Proviso was one of the major events leading to the American Civil War. Congressman David Wilmot of Pennsylvania first introduced...
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  • Nanaimo City and Newcastle. The following MLAs were elected: The incumbent John Jardine received 96 votes   = open seat   = winning candidate was in previous...
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    Wilmot Collins (born October 15, 1963) is an American politician serving as the mayor of Helena, Montana. He defeated four-term incumbent mayor James E...
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    Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester (26 October 1612 – 19 February 1658), known as The Lord Wilmot between 1643 and 1644 and as The Viscount Wilmot between...
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  • John George Winchester Wilmot (19 September 1830 – 3 August 1895) was an English-born pioneering coffee planter in British Ceylon and a surveyor in Victoria...
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    David Wilmot (January 20, 1814 – March 16, 1868) was an American politician and judge. He served as Representative and a Senator for Pennsylvania and as...
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  • 1912 Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures Social Democratic John Thomas Wilmot Place 621 39.45% Conservative Albert Edward Planta 578 36.72% unknown...
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    Olivia Serres (redirect from Olivia Wilmot)
    Olivia Wilmot, the daughter of Robert Wilmot, a house painter, in Warwick. At the age of ten she was sent to board with her uncle, James Wilmot, rector...
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  • Parker Williams of the Socialist Party, representing Newcastle and John Thomas Wilmot Place, a Social Democrat, representing Nanaimo City, formed the opposition...
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    Rufus Wilmot Griswold (February 13, 1815 – August 27, 1857) was an American anthologist, editor, poet, and critic. Born in Vermont, Griswold left home...
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  • December 1915 to become British Columbia's agent general in London. William John Bowser succeeded McBride as Premier. David McEwen Eberts served as speaker...
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    at the 2020 census. The town includes the communities of Wilmot, Wilmot Flat, and North Wilmot. Incorporated in 1807 from part of New London, the Kearsarge...
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  • Notable among these were John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, and the Marquis de Sade. The word libertine was originally coined by John Calvin to negatively...
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  • married secondly, on 2 May 1855, Isabella Eliza Wilmot, daughter of Colonel Eardley Wilmot and widow of John Hartpole Lecky. They had one son together. Lord...
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    appropriations bill, Democratic Congressman David Wilmot of Pennsylvania offered an amendment known as the Wilmot Proviso, which would ban slavery in any newly...
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    2009, pp. 27–28. Wilmot 1997, p. 181. Wilmot 1997, p. 183. Wilmot 1997, p. 321. Whitmarsh 2009, pp. 89–90. Wilmot 1997, p. 182. Wilmot 1997, p. 195. Ford...
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    fled the city by St Martin's Gate to the north, in the company of Lord Wilmot, Lord Derby, Charles Giffard (or Gifford), and others. Charles wanted to...
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    returned to the Senate, where he opposed the Mexican–American War, the Wilmot Proviso and the Compromise of 1850 before he died of tuberculosis in 1850...
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  • him'. Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere about Thomas Moody, in a letter to Sir Robert Wilmot Horton that is dated 15 December 1821. Moody arrived...
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    1875), p. 518: "... rector of All Souls, Langham Place, London 1855–61" Rev Edward Revel EARDLEY-WILMOT 10712 at thekingscandlesticks.com, accessed 26 April...
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    13. John Milton, The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction by Rufus Wilmot Griswold. In Two Volumes (Philadelphia: John W. Moore...
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  • slavery's domestic expansion. In 1848, senator David Wilmot cited it while trying to build support for the Wilmot Proviso, which would have banned slavery in territory...
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    Thomas is the second-largest, with St. Croix being the largest, and St. John, the smallest. As of the 2020 census, the population of Saint Thomas was...
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    offensive to expand slavery. After the start of the war, he supported the Wilmot Proviso, an unsuccessful legislative proposal that would have banned slavery...
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  • 4 places in Delaware, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Vermont – Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington Wilmot, New Hampshire – Dr. James Wilmot (English...
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    planking. The wreck lies in about 11 m (36 ft) of water at the bottom of Wilmot and Crampton Bay in the eastern part of Queen Maud Gulf, west of O'Reilly...
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  • Liberal Party. Mike Clancy was born in London, Ontario and raised in St. Thomas. He received a degree in religious studies and ethics from the University...
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