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OXFORD, EARLS OF

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 402 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OXFORD, EARLS OF , an See also:English See also:title held successively by the families of See also:Vere and Harley. The three most important earls of the Vere See also:line (see VERE) are noticed separately below. The Veres held the earldom from 1142 until See also:March 1703, when it became See also:extinct on the See also:death of See also:Aubrey de Vere, the loth See also:earl. In 1 711 the English statesman See also:Robert Harley (see below) was created earl of Oxford; but the title became extinct in this See also:family on the death of the 6th earl in 1853.

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