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Charles Spencer 3d earl of Sunderland
Charles Spencer Sunderland, 3d earl of 1674-1722, English statesman; son of the 2d earl. His marriage (1700) to a daughter of the 1st duke of Marlborough brought him a secretaryship of state (1706), and he was powerful in the Whig junto that controlled affairs from 1708 to 1710. He fell with the... Read more |
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Robert Spencer 2d earl of Sunderland
Robert Spencer Sunderland, 2d earl of 1641-1702, English statesman. He succeeded to the earldom in 1643. During the reign of Charles II he served on various diplomatic missions and in 1679 was made a secretary of state. His support of the bill to exclude the duke of York (later James II) from the... Read more |
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Charles Townshend 2d Viscount Townshend
Charles Townshend Townshend, 2d Viscount , 1674-1738, English statesman. A leading Whig in the reign of Queen Anne, he served as a commissioner to negotiate the union (1707) with Scotland and as ambassador (1708-11) to the Netherlands. He strongly supported the Hanoverian succession, and when... Read more |
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Sunderland
Sunderland city (1991 pop. 195,064) and metropolitan district, NE England, at the mouth of the Wear River. The city was established as a shipbuilding center and a coal-shipping port in the 14th cent; shipbuilding ended in the 1980s, and coal mining in the 1990s. Sunderland exports metals and... Read more |
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George I
George I (George Louis), 1660-1727, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1714-27); son of Sophia , electress of Hanover, and great-grandson of James I. He became (1698) elector of Hanover, fought in the War of the Spanish Succession, and in 1714 succeeded Queen Anne under the provisions of the Act... Read more |
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Benedict Biscop
Benedict Biscop , c.628-690, English monk. He founded the monasteries of Wearmouth (at Sunderland) and Jarrow, and he was abbot of St. Peter's, Canterbury. Bede was his pupil.... Read more |
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Wear
Wear , river, c.65 mi (100 km) long, rising in the Pennines in County Durham, NE England, and flowing to the North Sea at Sunderland. Navigable for barges to Durham city, the river waters a rich agricultural area. The lower Wear passes through an industrial region.... Read more |
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Junto
Junto was the name given to the Whig allies in the later part of William III's reign and that of Anne. They were particularly strong in the Lords, where the leaders included Somers, Halifax, Orford, Sunderland, and Wharton. Their luck improved when George I succeeded in August 1714. J. A. ... Read more |
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Charles Grey 2nd Earl
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Tyne and Wear
Tyne and Wear former metropolitan county, NE England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county embraced the Newcastle upon Tyne conurbation and comprised five metropolitan districts: Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Gateshead, and Sunderland. Tyne and Wear... Read more |
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Sunderland, Robert Spencer, 2nd earl of
Sunderland, Robert Spencer, 2nd earl of (1641–1702). Clever, urbane, and supremely self-confident, Sunderland was undoubtedly the most durable...Upon William's ‘invasion’, Sunderland insisted that James reverse ... |
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Sunderland, Robert Spencer, 2nd earl of
Sunderland, Robert Spencer, 2nd earl of (1641–1702). Clever, urbane, self‐confident, Sunderland was undoubtedly the most durable...Upon William's ‘invasion’, Sunderland, recently converted to catholicism... |
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