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Bolingbroke, Viscount Henry St. John(Henry)
1678 - He was born on the 16th of September.
1698 - He travelled abroad and acquired an exceptional knowledge of French, but also led an exceptionally dissipated and extravagant youth.
1701 - He was returned to Parliament for the family borough of Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire, as a Tory.
1702 - In March, he was chosen commissioner for taking the public accounts.
1711 - He founded the Brothers' Club, a society of Tory politicians and men of letters, and the same year witnessed the failure of the two expeditions to the West Indies and to Canada promoted by him.
1712 - He was the author of the bill taxing newspapers.
- In May, he ordered the Duke of Ormonde, who had succeeded Marlborough in command, to refrain from any further engagement.
1715 - In March, he in vain attempted to defend the late ministry in the new parliament; and on the announcement of Walpole's intended attack upon the authors of the treaty of Utrecht he fled in disguise to Paris, where he was well received, after having addressed a letter to Lord Lansdowne protesting his innocence and challenging "the most inveterate of his enemies to produce any instance of his criminal correspondence."
1716 - In March, he declared his final abandonment of the Pretender and promised to use his influence to secure the withdrawal of his friends; but he refused to betray any secrets or any individuals.
1738 - He visited England, became one of the leading friends and advisers of Frederick, Prince of Wales, who now headed the opposition, and wrote for the occasion The Patriot King, which together with a previous essay, The Spirit of Patriotism, and The State of Parties at the Accession of George I, were entrusted to Pope and not published.
1742-1743 - He again visited England and quarrelled with Warburton.
1744 - He settled finally at Battersea with his friend Hugh Hume, 3rd Earl of Marchmont, and was present at Pope's death in May.
1751 - He died on the 12th of December.
1698 - He travelled abroad and acquired an exceptional knowledge of French, but also led an exceptionally dissipated and extravagant youth.
1701 - He was returned to Parliament for the family borough of Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire, as a Tory.
1702 - In March, he was chosen commissioner for taking the public accounts.
1711 - He founded the Brothers' Club, a society of Tory politicians and men of letters, and the same year witnessed the failure of the two expeditions to the West Indies and to Canada promoted by him.
1712 - He was the author of the bill taxing newspapers.
- In May, he ordered the Duke of Ormonde, who had succeeded Marlborough in command, to refrain from any further engagement.
1715 - In March, he in vain attempted to defend the late ministry in the new parliament; and on the announcement of Walpole's intended attack upon the authors of the treaty of Utrecht he fled in disguise to Paris, where he was well received, after having addressed a letter to Lord Lansdowne protesting his innocence and challenging "the most inveterate of his enemies to produce any instance of his criminal correspondence."
1716 - In March, he declared his final abandonment of the Pretender and promised to use his influence to secure the withdrawal of his friends; but he refused to betray any secrets or any individuals.
1738 - He visited England, became one of the leading friends and advisers of Frederick, Prince of Wales, who now headed the opposition, and wrote for the occasion The Patriot King, which together with a previous essay, The Spirit of Patriotism, and The State of Parties at the Accession of George I, were entrusted to Pope and not published.
1742-1743 - He again visited England and quarrelled with Warburton.
1744 - He settled finally at Battersea with his friend Hugh Hume, 3rd Earl of Marchmont, and was present at Pope's death in May.
1751 - He died on the 12th of December.
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