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Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, KG PC FRS (5 December 1661 – 21 May 1724) was an English statesman and peer of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. He began his career as a Whig , before defecting to a new Tory ministry.
May 17, 2024 · Robert Harley, 1st earl of Oxford (born December 5, 1661, London, England—died May 21, 1724, London) was a British statesman who headed the Tory ministry from 1710 to 1714.
Jun 11, 2018 · Harley, Robert, 1st earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (1661–1724). Prime minister and bibliophile. From a puritan Herefordshire family, Harley was MP for Tregony (1689–90) and New Radnor Boroughs (1690–1711), and in the 1690s a leader of the new country party (which attacked the royal prerogative and a standing army), as well as twice ...
Apr 30, 2022 · Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, KG PC FRS (5 December 1661 – 21 May 1724) was an English and later British statesman of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. He began his career as a Whig, before defecting to a new Tory Ministry.
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Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1711 for the statesman Robert Harley, with remainder, failing heirs male of his body, to those of his grandfather, Sir Robert Harley.
May 14, 2018 · The English statesman Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (1661-1724), revived and unified the Tory party at the end of the 17th century and was its leader until the death of Queen Anne in 1714.
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Harley, Robert, 1st earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (1661–1724) in The Oxford Companion to British History (1 rev) Length: 317 words
