. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . ny of his mastersunaltered regard for him on his death-bed, thekings last words being spent in asking for him,and his last action being to take his hand andpress it to his heart. After this event, the earlpassed a retired life at his seat of Bulstrode,employed in acts of charity, and in the culti-vation and improvement of his fine died November 23, 1709, in the sixty-firstyear of his age, and was buried i
. General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . ny of his mastersunaltered regard for him on his death-bed, thekings last words being spent in asking for him,and his last action being to take his hand andpress it to his heart. After this event, the earlpassed a retired life at his seat of Bulstrode,employed in acts of charity, and in the culti-vation and improvement of his fine died November 23, 1709, in the sixty-firstyear of his age, and was buried in Westmin-ster-abbey. He left children of both sexes byhis two wives, Anne, daughter of Sir EdwardVilliers, and Jane, daughter of Sir JohnTemple. The earl of character was, likethat of his master, grave, sedate, and inclinedto coldness and reserve. His demeanour wasrather lofty, yet he was not a proud man. Heinspired neither love nor hatred to any con-siderable degree; and the enmity which onsome occasions he experienced was rather na-tional and political than personal. He seemsto have been an able and upright statesman,and a man of private virtue. Bicgr,
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