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    Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac Barré (15 October 1726 – 20 July 1802) was a British Army officer and politician. Barré served with distinction serving in the...
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    Portrait of Isaac Barré is a 1785 portrait painting by the American artist Gilbert Stuart depicting the Irish politician and soldier Isaac Barré. Born in...
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    forty settlers. Wilkes-Barre Township was one of the original townships; it was named in honor of John Wilkes and Isaac Barré—two British members of Parliament...
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    Court. The next year on November 7, 1776, it was renamed Barre in honor of Colonel Isaac Barré, an Irish-born MP who was a champion of American Independence...
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    dissatisfied with the name Wildersburgh, citizens renamed the town after Isaac Barré, a champion of the American Colonies. In 1895, 4.0 square miles (10 km2)...
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    Henry Dundas – Treasurer of the Navy Sir George Yonge – Secretary at War Isaac Barré – Paymaster of the Forces The Duke of Rutland – Lord Steward of the Household...
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    National Guard brigadier general Helen Bonchek Schneyer, folk musician Isaac Barré "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January...
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    anti-taxation speech in the House of Commons on February 6, 1765, by Irish MP Isaac Barré. A precursor of the Sons of Liberty in Boston was the Loyal Nine, which...
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    and divided amongst forty settlers. Wilkes-Barre Township, named in honor of John Wilkes and Isaac Barré, was one of the original townships. Pennsylvanians...
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    (1997) online edition Archived 27 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine Kramnick, Isaac. The Rage of Edmund Burke: Portrait of an Ambivalent Conservative (1977)...
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  • Somali Isaac Barré (1726–1802), Irish soldier and politician Jacques-Jean Barre (1793–1855), French engraver (also often styled "Jean-Jacques Barre") Jean...
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    Reynolds, 1784 American artist John Singleton Copley, c. 1784 Portrait of Isaac Barré, 1785 John Philip Kemble, 1785 John Jones of Frankley, 1785, Birmingham...
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    as the Fox–North coalition. The Lord Grantham – First Lord of Trade Isaac Barré – Treasurer of the Navy Thomas Townshend – Secretary at War Edmund Burke...
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    April 1764. He was succeeded in Wycombe by one of his supporters Colonel Isaac Barré who had a distinguished war record after serving with James Wolfe in...
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    itself, and the bill was fought in its various stages by Edmund Burke, Isaac Barré, Thomas Pownall and others. In spite of them, the act became a law on...
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    Joshua Reynolds of John Dunning (later 1st Baron Ashburton) (left); Isaac Barré, Treasurer of the Navy in 1782 (centre); William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne...
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    Township Versailles, named after the Palace of Versailles Wilkes-Barre (named after Isaac Barré, English soldier and politician of Huguenot descent) Lafayette...
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    to the City of Wilkes-Barre, which was named after John Wilkes. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania – named for John Wilkes and Isaac Barré. Wilkes University, a...
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    Joshua Reynolds (1784) Portrait of Benjamin West (1785) Portrait of Isaac Barré (1785) Catherine Brass Yates (1793–1794) Portrait of Horatio Gates (1793–1794)...
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    cravat An unknown man wearing a cravat in the early 19th century Colonel Isaac Barre wearing a cravat in the mid-18th century Thomas Tooke wearing a cravat...
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    Joshua Reynolds (1784) Portrait of Benjamin West (1785) Portrait of Isaac Barré (1785) Catherine Brass Yates (1793–1794) Portrait of Horatio Gates (1793–1794)...
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    freedom. Montgomery became friends with several prominent Whigs such as Isaac Barré, Edmund Burke, and Charles James Fox. While stationed in Britain, Montgomery...
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  • Grafton North Edmund Burke 10 April 1782 1 August 1782 Rockingham II Isaac Barré 1 August 1782 16 April 1783 Shelburne Edmund Burke 16 April 1783 8 January...
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    1760 Viscount FitzMaurice Whig March 1761 Robert Waller December 1761 Isaac Barré Whig 1774 Hon. Thomas FitzMaurice 1780 Viscount Mahon Whig 1786 Earl...
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    Governor of the Bank of England, was born into a Huguenot family in London. Isaac Barré, the son of Huguenot settlers in Ireland, became an influential British...
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    325–344. doi:10.3366/scot.2022.0420. S2CID 251189142. Wilberforce, Robert Isaac (1843). The Life of Wilberforce. London: Seeley, Burnside and Seeley. pp...
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  • Junius elucidated: including a biographical memoir of Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac Barré, M. P. Smith, Edward (1886). "Boyd, Hugh (1746-1794)" . In Stephen, Leslie...
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  • of the Feuillants. Isaac Barré, British politician, gave his name to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; Barre, Massachusetts; and Barre, Vermont. Ruth Bascom...
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    peace treaty with the United States. Shelburne introduced Baring to Isaac Barré, his paymaster-general, and to such leading luminaries as William Pitt...
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  • Viscount Walpole 1739–?1784: Hon. Sir Edward Walpole (died 1784) 1784–1802: Isaac Barré (blind 1784, died 1802) 1802–1823: Hon. Henry Addington jnr (died insane...
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