... Blackall was a famous Tory controversialist, and his nomination was made by Queen Anne in the face of strenuous opposition by her Whig Ministers, supported by the redoubtable Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. But the Queen stood firm, and when your readers County ...

... reputation partly rested. The relative lownes of the new rooms demanded also, independently of Lord Spencer's finances and of the Whig taste for· French vogue, the simple Teocla . ical treatment that was H olland's other long suit. Characteri tic of this elegant ...

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... Middle Temple, and, in 1751, Treasurer, as his grandfather had been. H e went into Parliament, representing Bedford in the Whig interest in 1727. From 1738 until his death he was a Commissioner of Excise. H e seems to have been an altogether In The Chronicles ...