John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, British barrister and politician, resigned in protest as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, against Catholic Emancipation

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Illustration from Cassell's Century Edition History of England, pub circa 1901. After Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830)

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