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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e certainly is one of the most generous, princely,brave men that ever was, but good-natured to a fault; loves glory, and consequently is crowded withflatterers; never knew how to refuse anybody, which was the reason why he obtained so little from KingWilliam, asking for everybody. He had all the qualities of a great man, except one of a statesman,hating business ; loving, and is beloved by, the ladies; of a low stature, but well shaped ; a good mienand address ; a fair complexion, and very beautiful face. He is about forty years old. The Duke of Ormond married, first, Anne, eldest daughter of Laurence Hyde, first Earl of Rochesterof his family, who died young, and childless; secondly, Mary, eldest surviving daughter of HenrySomerset, first Duke of Beaufort, by whom he had an only son, Thomas, who died in infancy ; as didthree daughters, Mary, Emilia, and Henrietta ; another Mary, who was married to John, first LordAshburnham ; and Elizabeth, who died a spinster in 1750. i i ~^—■ *
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I CM THE ORIG-IXAL OFTARYlS~TN TTfK COUECTICCH OF THOMAS W.M.IOI.I. r.SQKt ROBERT WALPOLE, PIE8T EABL OP OBI OBD Bib EtoBBET Walpolb, perhaps the moil able and honest, and certainly one of the mstatesmen of Ins iimi>, sprung from a long line of powerful and wealthy ancestor! who bad been tor macenturies seated ul Houghton, in the count) of Norfolk, where be waa born on tbe twenty-sixth ofAugust, L676, the third son of Roberl Walpole, of thai plaoe, by Mary, only daughter and heir ofGeoffrey Burwell, of Bougham, in Suffolk, Neither the circcmetancea of his family, respectable as they were, nor bis own position io it, a!time of his birth, afforded any prospect of hi* attaining to the important and dignified station whichawaited him, for he waa the third son among nineteen children, lie was designed therefore for theprofession of the law, and received Buch an education, &rs1 at Eton, and afterwards at Kongs College, inCambridge, where be was admitted a scholar in L696, as was thou

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