Identifier: p1portraitsofillus05lodg (find matches)
Title: Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility, and the public collections of the country. With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Lodge, Edmund, 1756-1839
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Publisher: London : London Print. and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the new administration was short; but it was longer than the existence of thenobleman under whose name it is referred to in history. He, however, lived to see the menacingdissensions which had so long prevailed in Ireland happily and rationally composed, the beginning of thatreform in the representation in Parliament, and in the expenditure of the public finances which he hadalways strenuously advocated, and the ground laid for the cessation of the exhausting and unprofitablecontest with America. His death, and the changes which ensued upon it, broke up the administrationfrom whose first measures so much more might have been justly expected, and postponed the fulfilmentof the hopes it had excited to a more fortunate period. The Marquis died, after a very short illness, athis house at Wimbledon, in Surrey, on the second of July, 1782, and was buried in York Minster. This nobleman married Mary, daughter and heiress of Robert Bright, of Badsworth, in the county ofYork, but left no issue.
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FROM THE ORIGINAL 01 5 I \ IIII. I i iLLEI TloX OF HIS GRACE, ft 11

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