Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility, and the public collections of the countryWith biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . the highestfavour, for, on the twenty-sixth of October, 1714, little more than one month after the Kings arrivalin England, he was created Earl of Clare, one of the dignities of his mothers family, and, on the secondof August, in the next year, Marquis of Clare, and Duke of Newcastle-on-Tyne, with remainder to hisonly brother, Henry Pelham. Nothing now seemed to be
Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility, and the public collections of the countryWith biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . the highestfavour, for, on the twenty-sixth of October, 1714, little more than one month after the Kings arrivalin England, he was created Earl of Clare, one of the dignities of his mothers family, and, on the secondof August, in the next year, Marquis of Clare, and Duke of Newcastle-on-Tyne, with remainder to hisonly brother, Henry Pelham. Nothing now seemed to be wanting to complete his exaltation and goodfortune but a suitable marriage, and a splendid public appointment, and both were at hand ; for, on thesecond of April, 1717, he wedded the Lady Harriet, daughter of Francis, Earl of Godolphin, and grand-daughter of the great John, Duke of Marlborough ; and, in the course of the same month, was appointedLord Chamberlain of the Kings Household, and sworn of the Privy Council. The Order of the Garteralso was conferred on him, on the thirty-first of March, in the succeeding year. Here seemed enough to satisfy—could such a medium exist—any reasonable ambition; but it46 . .. .. /. THOM LS AM HOLLRS, D1 K B OF \ i \ i i.:. proved insufficient to hii desires Satiatod with the pre eminence in i I bold s»i burthensome distinctions of a statesman, and aeon, urrpl( 11• 11• I t.• 111J»«>t;ir\ oomi ons, with which ha * this appetite j In the summer of 1718, he wm ono of the Peon appointed to ign the tni ladruple Alliance, and, in eaoh of the two following yen appointed one of the L J tioee ; for the administration of the government in the Kings abienoe in Germany, ai I n in mul frequently afterwards. length bis brother-in-law, Charlei Vi >unt Townshend, aof several yearspractice, and Sir Robert Welpole, %\11<? was also related to thai nobleman, havingsucceeded in driving Lord Carteret from the office of a
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