History of Wendover in the county of Buckingham; with illustrations and sketch maps . find the representa-tion of Wendover divided between the Hampdens andthe Verneys, and before its close the influence of thelatter family prevailing. Ralph 2nd Viscount Fer-managh and 1st Earl Veruey in the Irish Peerag-e, -igreat grandson of Sir Edmund the Standard Bearer, waselected for Wendover in 1741 and 1747, and on hisdeath in 1753 his sou Ralph took his place. There isa fine portrait of the Earl, believed to be by Hudson,,in the collection at Claydon House, and a medallionof the 2nd Earl, here r
History of Wendover in the county of Buckingham; with illustrations and sketch maps . find the representa-tion of Wendover divided between the Hampdens andthe Verneys, and before its close the influence of thelatter family prevailing. Ralph 2nd Viscount Fer-managh and 1st Earl Veruey in the Irish Peerag-e, -igreat grandson of Sir Edmund the Standard Bearer, waselected for Wendover in 1741 and 1747, and on hisdeath in 1753 his sou Ralph took his place. There isa fine portrait of the Earl, believed to be by Hudson,,in the collection at Claydon House, and a medallionof the 2nd Earl, here reproduced. In George first Parliament (1761) RichardCavendish, of Latimer, one of the Chesham family, andVerney Lovett, of Soulbury, represented Wendover; and 57 on the retirement of the latter bj^ his acceptance of theStewardship of the Manor of East Hendred, Berks, EarlVerney, at the bye-election, introduced Edmund Burketo Wendover. Burke had a short time previously beenappointed Private Secretary to the Marquis of Rocking-ham, the new Premier who had succeeded Grenville,. RALPH 2nd, earl YERXEY. and it has been suggested that the Earl procured Burkeselection in order to pave his own way to the PrivyCouncil; but it seems much more likely that he felt thevital importance of attaching so able a man, as Burkehad alread^^ the reputation of being, to a party so feeblein talent as that of the Marquis of Eockingham then 58 was. Burke is said to liave been tall, erect, wellformed, but not robust in appearance, with a counten-ance of much sweetness, and in his youth was esteemedby ladies very handsome. He, however, had hisenemies, and the Duke of Newcastle fruitlessly tried toprevent his appointment as secretary to Eocking-ham,alleging that his real name was 0Burke, and that hewas a wild Irishman, a Jacobite, a Papist, and con-cealed Jesuit. In the same year that Burke enteredthe House, Rockingham brought in a Bill to repealGrenvilles Stamp xict, but at the same time declareihe
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