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See also:MALMESBURY, 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 See also:HARRIS, IST See also:EARL OF (1746-1820) , See also:English diplomatist, was See also:born at See also:Salisbury on the 21st of See also:April 1746, being the son of James Harris (q.v.), the author of See also:Hermes. Educated at See also:Winchester, 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 and See also:Leiden, See also:young Harris became secretary in 1768 to the See also:British See also:embassy at See also:Madrid, and was See also:left as See also:charge d'affaires at that See also:court on the departure of See also:Sir James See also:Grey until the arrival of See also:George See also:Pitt, afterwards See also:Lord See also:Rivers. This See also:interval gave him his opportunity; he discovered the intention of See also:Spain to attack the See also:Falkland Islands, and was instrumental in thwarting it by putting on a bold countenance. As a See also:reward he was appointed See also:minister ad See also:interim at Madrid, and in See also:January 1772 minister plenipotentiary to the court of See also:Prussia. His success was marked, and in 1797 he was transferred to the court of See also:Russia. At St See also:Petersburg he made his reputation, for he managed to get on with See also:Catherine in spite of her predilections for See also:France, and steered adroitly through the accumulated difficulties of the first Armed See also:Neutrality. He was made a See also:knight of the See also:Bath at the end of 1778, but in 1782 he returned See also:home owing to See also:ill-See also:health, and was appointed by his friend See also:Fox to be minister at the See also:Hague, an See also:appointment confirmed after some delay by Pitt (1784). He did very See also:great service in furthering Pitt's policy of maintaining See also:England's See also:influence on the See also:Continent by the arms of her See also:allies, and held the threads of the diplomacy493
which ended in 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 of Prussia's overthrowing the republican party in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, which was inclined to France, and re-establishing the See also:prince of See also:Orange. In recognition of his services he was created See also:Baron Malmesbury of Malmesbury (See also:Sept. 1788), and permitted by the king of Prussia to See also:bear the Prussian See also:eagle on his arms, and by the prince of Orange to use his See also:motto " Je maintiendrai." He returned to England, and took an anxious See also:interest in politics, which ended in his seceding from the Whig party with the See also:duke of See also:Portland in 1793; and in that See also:year he was sent by Pitt, but in vain, to try to keep Prussia true to the first See also:coalition against France. In 1794 he was sent to See also:Brunswick to solicit the See also:hand of the unfortunate Princess See also:Caroline for the prince of See also:Wales, to marry her as See also:proxy, and conduct her to her See also:husband in England. In 1796 and 1797 he was at See also:Paris and See also:Lille vainly negotiating with the See also:French See also:Directory. After 1797 he became partially See also:deaf, and quitted See also:diplomacy altogether; but for his See also:long and eminent services he was in "Boo created earl of Malmesbury, and See also:Viscount Fitzharris, of See also:Heron Court in the See also:county of Hants. He now became a sort of See also:political See also:Nestor, consulted on See also:foreign policy by successive foreign ministers, trusted by men of the most different ideas in political crises, and above all the confidant, and for a See also:short 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 after Pitt's See also:death almost the political director, of See also:Canning. Younger men were also wont to go to him for See also:advice, and Lord See also:Palmerston particularly, who was his See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
ward, was tenderly attached to him, and owed many of his ideas on foreign policy directly to his teaching. His later years were See also:free from politics, and till his death on the 21st of See also:November 182o he lived very quietly and almost forgotten. As a statesman, Malmesbury had an influence among his See also:con-temporaries which is scarcely to be understood from his writings, but which must have owed much to See also:personal See also:charm of manner and persuasiveness of See also:tongue; as a diplomatist, he seems to have deserved his reputation, and shares with See also:Macartney, See also:Auckland and See also:Whitworth the See also:credit of raising diplomacy from a profession in which only great nobles won the prizes to a career opening the path of See also:honour to ability. He was succeeded as 2nd earl by his son James See also:Edward (1778-1841), under-secretary for foreign affairs under Canning; from whom the See also:title passed to James See also:Howard, 3rd earl of Malmesbury (q.v.).
Malmesbury did not publish anything himself, except an See also:account of the Dutch revolution; and an edition of his See also:father's See also:works, but his important Diaries (1844) and Letters (187o) were edited by his See also:grandson.
End of Article: MALMESBURY, JAMES HARRIS, IST EARL OF (1746-1820)
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