Whig politician. Grandson of the first Baron, and nephew of Charles James Fox. Born Wiltshire and orphaned by the age of 5.
Owned 401 slaves. Express Informer provides "‘By the unexpected death of his wife’s first husband in 1800, Holland found himself the reluctant, but effectual proprietor of the Vassall plantations in Jamaica." He claimed to abhor slavery, but apparently not enough to free the slaves as soon as they came into his ownership.
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Lord Holland, Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland
Yet anonther lazy London statue - see Peabody for our log of all the seated s...
There are four surviving original copies of Magna Carta - two in the British Library, one at Lincoln Cathedral and one at Salisbury Cathedral. The British Library is the place to go to learn about...
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea in 2014.
Naval officer. Born Aberdeenshire. Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1853 until his death. 75 years in the navy, he was possibly the model for C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower.
Lord of the Manor. William Bentinck. Tory Prime Minister in 1783 and 1807-09. Was Colonial Secretary at the time of Grant's voyage to the new colony, New South Wales. And so Portland (originally Po...
Effendi, or Efendi, is merely a title of nobility and the name Sidly may well be just one spelling of the Turkish Ambassador's name. We can't identify him.
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