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 Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She was by birth Elizabeth Vassall (1770 - 1845), daughter of Richard Vassall, a planter in Jamaica.
Holland took his seat in the House of Lords on 5 October 1796.
He was appointed to negotiate a treaty with American envoys James Monroe and William Pinkney, was admitted to the privy council on 27 August 1806, and on the 15th of October entered the Ministry of All the Talents as Lord Privy Seal, retiring with the rest of his colleagues in March 1807.
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 Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, (28 September 1705-1 July 1774) was an English statesman.
He tried in vain to obtain promotion to an earldom, a title on which he had set his heart, and he died at Holland House, Kensington, a sorely disappointed man, with a reputation for cunning and unscrupulousness, the most unpopular politician of his day.
This helped him progress in the House of Commons, becoming an indispensable member of several administrations.
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 Articles - Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell of St Andrews (July 6, 1846 - March 6, 1850)
Arthur Augustus William Harry, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede (March 13, 1931 - August 24, 1931)
Sir Richard Fowler (June 10, 1462 - November 3, 1477)
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 JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND - LoveToKnow Article on JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
While a resident of New York, where he died on the 12th of October 1881, he iden.tified himself with measures for good government and school reform, and in 1872 became a member and for a short time in 1873 was president of the Board of Education.
See Mrs H. Plunketts Josiah Gilbert Holland (New York, 1894).
Dr Hollands books long enjoyed a wide popularity.
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 Holland, Henry Fox, 1st Baron --  Encyclopædia Britannica
British Whig politician, associate of the party leader and reorganizer Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, and nephew and disciple of the statesman Charles James Fox, whose libertarian political ideas he expounded in the House of Lords.
Fox had been elected as the candidate of the center-right National Action party (PAN).
Mexico's 71 uninterrupted years of rule by the Institutional Revolutionary party (PRI) ended on Dec. 1, 2000, when Vicente Fox was sworn in as president.
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 Fox (disambiguation)
Stanley H. Fox (contemporary), American politician from North Carolina
Gustavus Fox (1821–1883), American naval officer in the Civil War
Marye Anne Fox (1947–), American chemist and university administrator
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Holland Henry Richard Vassall Fox 3rd Baron
Holland, Henry Fox, 1st Baron (1705-1774), British statesman, born in London, and educated at Christ Church, University of Oxford.
Henry III (of England) (1207-1272), king of England (1216-1272), son and successor of King John (Lackland), and a member of the house of Anjou, or...
Holland, Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Baron (1773-1840), British statesman and writer, grandson of the 1st Baron Holland, born in Winterslow...
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 Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Baron Holland (1773-1840), Whig statesman and patron of art and letters
Holland was at the heart of Whig politics and social life.
A disciple of his uncle, Charles James Fox, he was committed to the reform of civil and religious liberties.
However, his greatest contribution to Regency politics was as host of Holland House where he and his wife, Elizabeth, maintained a lively salon between 1800 and 1840.
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 BENTHAM, Jeremy., Plan of Parliamentary Reform in the form of a Catechism, with reasons for each article, with an ...
Bentham was also well acquainted with his wife, Elizabeth, Lady Holland, and his elder sister, Caroline (1767-1845), whom he first met in 1781 and for whom he 'conceived a deep and abiding affection' (Atkinson, p.
Provenance: Holland House was the home of Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Baron Holland (1773-1840), lord privy seal 1806-7, who was a correspondent and friend of Bentham's.
Insertion was declined and Bentham never forgave Cobbett: the references to him in subsequent writings are usually abusive.
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 AIM25: University College London: Goldsmid Letters
Scope and content/abstract: Letterbooks of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, 1805-1856 and undated but dating largely from the period 1828-1835, mainly comprising letters to Goldsmid concerning his interests and activities in Jewish emancipation, social and educational reform, including the foundation of the University of London.
See also Memoir of Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid (Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co, London, 1879, revised edition, 1882), including information on the subject's father, Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid.
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 Biographical List of Names (HOL - HOO) compiled by GIGA
English statesman, satirist and writer (1773 - 1840) [see Fox]
American author, poet and moralist (1819 - 1881)
British aristocrat and letter writer (1723 - 1774)
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