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See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
STONE, See also:GEORGE (1708—1764) , See also:archbishop of See also:Armagh, was the son of See also:Andrew Stone, a See also:London banker, and was educated at See also:Westminster School and 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. Having taken See also:holy orders his See also:advancement in the Church was very rapid, mainly through the See also:influence of his See also:brother Andrew. Andrew Stone (1703—1773), who was five years older than George, became private secretary to the See also:duke of See also:Newcastle about 1729, and was for many years on the most intimate and confidential terms both with the duke and with his brother 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:Pelham. In 1734 he was appointed under-secretary of See also:state, and he soon gained a position of See also:great See also:personal influence with George II. by whom he was made See also:tutor to See also:Prince George, afterwards George III. On the See also:accession of the latter to the See also:throne, Andrew Stone was appointed treasurer to See also:Queen See also:Charlotte, and attaching himself to See also:Lord See also:Bute he became an influential member of the party known as " 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's See also:friends," whose meetings were frequently held at his See also:house. He was, therefore, well able to promote the preferment of his brother George, who went to See also:Ireland as See also:chaplain to the duke of See also:Dorset when that nobleman became lord-See also:lieutenant in 1731. In 1733 George Stone was made See also:dean of Ferns, and in the following See also:year he exchanged this deanery for that of Derry; in 1740 he became See also:bishop of Ferns, in 1743 bishop of See also:Kildare, in 1745 bishop of Derry, and in 1747 archbishop of Armagh. During the two years that he occupied the see of Kildare he was also dean of See also:Christchurch, See also:Dublin.
From the moment that he became See also:primate of Ireland, Stone proved himself more a politician than an ecclesiastic. " He was said to have been selfish, worldly-minded, ambitious and ostentatious; and he was accused, though very probably falsely, of See also:gross private See also:vice." 1 His aim was to secure See also:political See also:power, a See also:desire which brought him into conflict with See also:Boyle, the See also:Speaker of the Irish House of See also:Commons, who had organized a formidable opposition to the See also:government. The duke of Dorset's reappointment to the lord-lieutenancy in 1751, with his son Lord George See also:Sackville as secretary of state for Ireland, strengthened the primate's position and enabled him to See also:triumph over the popular party on the constitutional question as to the right of the Irish House of Commons to dispose of surplus Irish See also:revenue, which the government maintained was the See also:property of the See also:Crown. But when Dorset was replaced by the duke of See also:Devonshire in 1755, Boyle was raised to the See also:peerage as See also:earl of See also:Shannon and received a See also:pension, and other members of the opposition also obtained See also:pensions or places; and the archbishop, finding himself excluded from power, went into opposition to the government in See also:alliance with See also:John See also:Ponsonby. These two, afterwards joined by the primate's old See also:rival Lord Shannon, and usually supported by the earl of Kildare, regained See also:control of affairs in 1758, during the viceroyalty of the duke of See also:Bedford. In the same year Stone wrote a remarkable See also:letter, preserved in the Bedford See also:Correspondence (ii. 357), in which he speaks very despondingly of the material See also:condition of Ireland and the See also:distress of the See also:people. The archbishop was one of the " undertakers " who controlled the Irish House of Commons, and although he did not regain the almost dictatorial power he had exercised at an earlier See also:period, which had suggested a comparison between him and See also:Cardinal See also:Wolsey, he continued to enjoy a prominent See also:share in the See also:administration of Ireland until his See also:death, which occurred in London on the loth of See also:December 1764.
Although this "much-abused See also:prelate," as See also:Lecky calls him, was a See also:firm supporter of the See also:English government in Ireland, he was far from being a See also:man of tyrannical or intolerant disposition. It was due to his influence that in the See also:anti-tithe disturbances in See also:Ulster in 1763 the government acted with conspicuous moderation, and that the See also:movement was suppressed with very little bloodshed; he constantly favoured a policy of conciliation to-wards the See also:Roman Catholics, whose See also:loyalty he defended at
W E. H. Lecky, Hist. of Ireland in the Eighteenth See also:Century (1892), i. 462.different periods of his career both in his speeches in the Irish House of Lords and in his correspondence with ministers in London. Archbishop Stone, who never married, was a man of remarkably handsome See also:appearance; and his See also:manners were " eminently seductive and insinuating." See also:Richard See also:Cumberland, who was struck by the " See also:Polish magnificence " of the primate, speaks in the highest terms of his courage, tact, and qualities as a popular See also:leader. See also:Horace See also:Walpole, who gives an unfavourable picture of his private See also:character, acknowledges that Stone possessed " abilities seldom to be matched "; and he had the distinction of being mentioned by See also:David See also:Hume as one of the only two men of See also:mark who had perceived merit in that author's See also:History of See also:England on its first appearance. He was himself the author of several volumes of sermons which were published during his lifetime.
See Richard See also:Mant, History of the Church of Ireland, vol. ii. (London, 1840) ; J. A. See also:Froude, The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century (3 vols., London, 1872–1874) ; W. E. H. Lecky, History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century (5 vols., London, 1892) ; J. R. 'Flanagan, Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great See also:Seal of Ireland
(2 vols., London, 1870),; Richard Cumberland, See also:Memoirs (London, 1806) ; F. See also:Hardy, Memoirs of the earl of See also:Charlemont (2 vols., 2nd. ed., London, 1812) ; Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George II.
(3 vols., London, 1846) ; Bedford Correspondence (3 vols., London, 1842—1846) ; Correspondence of See also:Chatham (4 vols., London, 1838—18 0).
(R. J.
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