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See also:BATH, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM ,PI;ILTENEY, 1ST See also:EARL OF (1684-s764) generally known by the surname of PULTENEY, See also:English politiciahl descended from an See also:ancient See also:family of See also:Leicestershire, was the sqi of William Pulteney by his first wife, See also:Mary FIoyd, and was See also:born in See also:April 1684. The boy was sent to See also:Westminster school, and from it proceeded to See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, matriculating ;th 31st of See also:October 1700. At these institutions he acquired his deep classical knowledge. On leaving Oxford he made the usualtouf on the See also:continent. In 1705 he was brought into See also:parliament by See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Guy (secretary of the See also:treasury, 1679-1688, and See also:June 169i. to See also:February 1695) for the See also:Yorkshire See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of )'Iedon, See also:ana '## his See also:death on the 23rd of February 1710 inherited an See also:estate '6
5ooa See also:year and £40,000 in See also:cash. This seat was held by him without a break until 1734. Throughout the reign of See also:Queen See also:Anne William Pulteney played a prominent See also:part in the struggles of the Whigs, and on the See also:prosecution of See also:Sacheverell he exerted himself with See also:great zeal against that violent divine. When the victorious Tories sent his friend See also:Robert See also:Walpole to the See also:Tower in 1712, Pulteney championed his cause in the See also:House of See also:Commons and with the leading Whigs visited him in his See also:prison-chamber. He held the See also:post of secretary of See also:war from 1714 to 1717 in the first See also:ministry of See also:George I., and when the See also:committee of secrecy on the See also:Utrecht treaty was formed in April 1715 the See also:list included the name of William Pulteney. Two years later (6th of See also:July 1716, he became one of the privy See also:council. When See also:Townshend was dismissed, in April 1717, from his post of See also:lord-See also:lieutenant of See also:Ireland, and Walpole resigned his places, they were followed in their retirement by Pulteney. The See also:crash of the See also:South See also:Sea See also:Company restored Walpole to the highest position, but all that he offered to Pulteney was a See also:peerage.
The offer was rejected, but in May 1723 Pulteney stooped to accept the lucrative but insignificant post of cofferer of the See also:household. In this obscure position he was content for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to await the future; but when he found himself neglected he opposed the proposition of Walpole to See also:discharge the debts of the See also:civil list, and in April 1725 was dismissed from his See also:sinecure. From the See also:day of his dismissal to that of his ultimate See also:triumph Pulteney remained in opposition, and, although See also:Sir Robert Walpole attempted in 1730 to conciliate him by the offer of Townshend's See also:place and of a peerage, all his overtures were spurned.- Pulteney's resentment was not confined to his speeches in parliament. With See also:Bolingbroke he set on See also:foot in See also:December 1726 the well-known periodical called the Craftsman, and in its pages the See also:minister was incessantly denounced for many years. Lord See also:Hervey published an attack on the Craftsman, and Pulteney,, either openly or behind the See also:person of See also:Amhurst, its editor, replied to the attack. Whether the question at issue was the civil list, the See also:excise, the income of the See also:prince of See also:Wales, or the See also:state of domestic affairs Pulteney was ready with a pamphlet, and the minister or one of his See also:friends came out with a reply. For his Proper reply to a See also:late scurrilous See also:libel " (Craftsman, 1731), an See also:answer to " See also:Sedition and See also:defamation displayed," he was challenged to a See also:duel by Lord Hervey; for another, " An answer to one part of an infamous libel entitled remarks on the Craftsman's indication of his two See also:honourable patrons," he was in July 1731 struck off the See also:roll of privy councillors and dismissed from the See also:commission of the See also:peace in several counties. In See also:print Pulteney was inferior to Bolingbroke alone among the antagonists of Walpole, but in parliament, from which St See also:John was excluded, he excelled all his comrades. When the sinking fund was appropriated in 1733 his See also:voice was the foremost in denunciation; when the excise See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme in the same year was stirring popular feeling to its lowest depths the See also:passion of the multitude See also:broke out in his See also:oratory. Through Walpole's prudent withdrawal of the latter measure the fall of his ministry was averted. Bolingbroke withdrew to See also:France on the See also:suggestion, it is said,"of Pulteney, and the opposition was weakened by the dissensions of the leaders.
From 'the See also:general See also:election of 1734 Until his See also:elevation to the peerage Pulteney sat for See also:Middlesex.
For some years after this election the minister's assailants made little progress in their attack, but in 1738 the troubles with See also:Spain supplied them with the opportunity. which they desired. Walpole See also:long argued for peace, but he was feebly supported in his own See also:cabinet, and the frenzy of the See also:people for war knew no See also:bounds. In an evil moment for his own reputation he consented to remain in See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office and to gratify popular passion with a war against Spain. His downfall was not long -deferred. War was declared in 1739; a new parliament was summoned in the summer of 1741, and over the divisions, on the election petitions the ministry of Walpole See also:fell to pieces. The task of forming the new See also:administration was after some delay entrusted to-Pulteney, who weakly offered the post of first lord of the treasury to that harmless politician the earl of See also:Wilmington, and contented himself with a seat in the cabinet and a peerage, thinking that by this See also:action he would preservehis reputation for consistency in disdaining office and yet retain his supremacy in the ministry. At this See also:act popular feeling broke out into open indignation, and from the moment of his elevation to the Upper House Pulteney's See also:influence dwindled to nothing. See also:Horace Walpole asserts that when Pulteney wished to recall his See also:desire for 'a peerage it was forced upon him through the ex-minister's See also:advice by the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, and another chronicler of the times records that when See also:victor and vanquished met in the House of Lords, the one as Lord See also:Orford, the other as the earl of Bath, the remark was made by the exulting' Orford: Here we are, my lord, the two most insignificant See also:fellows in See also:England." On the 14th of ' July 1742 Pulteney was created See also:Baron Pulteney of See also:Hedon, Co. See also:York, See also:Viscount Pulteney of Wrington, Co. See also:Somerset, and earl of Bath. On the loth of February he had been restored to his See also:rank in the privy council. At Wilmington's death in 1743 he made application to the king for the post of first lord of the treasury, only to 'find that it had been conferred on Henry See also:Pelham.
For two days, loth-12th February 1746, he was at the heal of a ministry; but in " 48 See also:hours, three quarters, seven minutes, and eleven seconds " it collapsed. An occasional pamphlet and an infrequent speech were afterwards the See also:sole fruits of Lord Bath's talents. His praises whilst in retirement have been sung by two bishops, Zachary See also:Pearce and See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Newton. He died on the 7th of July 1764, and was buried on the 17th of July in his own vault in See also:Islip See also:chapel, Westminster See also:Abbey. He married on the 27th of December 1714 See also:Anna Maria, daughter and co-heiress of john Gumley of Isleworth, See also:commissary-general to the See also:army who was often satirized by the wits of the day (ITotes and Queries, 3rd S. ii. 402-403, 490). She died on the 14th of See also:September 1758, and their only son William died unmarried at See also:Madrid on the 12th of February 1763. Pulteney's vast See also:fortune came in 1767 to William See also:Johnstone of See also:Dumfries (third son of Sir See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Johnstone), who had married Frances, daughter and co-heiress of his See also:cousin, See also:Daniel Pulteney, a See also:bitter
antagonist of Walpole in parliament, and had taken the name of Pulteney.
Pulteney's eloquence was keen and incisive, sparkling with vivacity and with allusions See also:drawn from the literature of his own See also:country and of See also:Rome. Of business he was never fond, and the loss in 1734 of his trusted friend John See also:Merrill, who had supplied the qualities which he lacked, was feelingly lamented by him in a See also:letter to See also:Swift. His See also:chief weakness was a passion for See also:money.
Lord Bath has See also:left no trace of the See also:possession of See also:practical statesmanship.
B1BL1OGRA1'HY.—Wm. See also:Coxe's See also:Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole (1816), and of Henry Pelham (1829) ; John See also:Morley'sWalpole (1889) ; See also:Walter Sichel's Bolingbroke (1901–1902) ; A. Ballantyne's See also:Carteret (1887); Eng. Hist. Rev. iv. 749-753, and the general See also:political memoirs of the time. (W. P.
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