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DOVER, GEORGE JAMES WELBORE

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 453 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOVER, See also:GEORGE See also:JAMES WELBORE AGAR-See also:ELLIS, See also:BARON (1797-1833), See also:English See also:man of letters, See also:born on the 14th of See also:January 1797, was the only son of the 2nd See also:Viscount Clifden. He was educated at See also:Westminster school and at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford. In 1818 he was returned to See also:parliament as member for Heytesbury. He afterwards represented See also:Seaford (1820), Ludgershall (1826) and See also:Okehampton (183o). He seconded See also:Canning's See also:motion in 1822 for a See also:bill to relieve the disabilities of See also:Roman See also:Catholic peers, and consistently supported liberal principles. In party politics, however, he took little See also:interest, but he zealously advocated in parliament and elsewhere that See also:state encouragement should be given to the cause of literature and the See also:fine arts. In 1824 he was the leading See also:promoter of the See also:grant of £57,000 for the See also:purchase of See also:John See also:Julius See also:Angerstein's collection of pictures, which formed the See also:foundation of the See also:National See also:Gallery. On the formation of See also:Lord See also:Grey's See also:administration, in See also:November 183o, he was appointed See also:chief See also:commissioner of See also:woods and forests, but was compelled by delicate See also:health to resign it after two months' occupancy. In See also:June 1831, during the lifetime of his See also:father, he was raised to the See also:House of Lords, receiving an English See also:peerage with the See also:title of Baron Dover. He was See also:president (1832) of the Royal Society of Literature, a trustee of the See also:British Museum and of the National Gallery, and a commissioner of public records. He died on the loth of See also:July 1833. Lord Dover's See also:works are chiefly See also:historical, and include The True See also:History of the See also:Iron See also:Mask, extracted from Documents in The See also:French Archives (1826), Inquiries respecting the See also:Character of See also:Clarendon (1827), and a See also:Life of See also:Frederick II.

(1831). He also edited the Ellis See also:

Correspondence (1829) and See also:Walpole's Letters to See also:Sir See also:Horace See also:Mann (1833).

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