King George I

WMCN had little hope she could secure a pardon for a Catholic rebel, but nevertheless she tried. She drummed up support, appeared regularly in the gallery at the House of Lords , organized a petition...

Mention in the first dialogue of George III 's illness shows that it was written in 1788 or later.AW 's first edition consisted of three dialogues; she added a fourth for a new...

He was a curate, until he refused to take the oath of loyalty to George I on his accession. He was then reduced to working as a Latin teacher until eleven years later he...

A New Ballad (like almost all answers to Lord Dorset 's cavalier ballad To all You Ladies now at Land) is written from a strongly gender-conscious point of view as well as a Tory...

He had already been an army officer, a court official, the holder of a civil service post, and a member of parliament. He was knighted by George I in 1715.

Sarah, Lady Piers, welcomed the arrival of a new monarch in George for Britain, a poem published with her name in two formats, one lavish (fine paper, wider margins) and one more ordinary.

Sarah, Lady Piers, authored five known poems between 1698 and 1714. They include verses prefixed to another's work, an elegy, and two occasional celebrations: one of some admirable ladies and one a Whiggish poem celebrating...

CR 's mother (born Hannah Smithies) was the daughter of a London goldsmith who was a jeweller to George I . Clara lived with her mother for most of her life.

It was published by Longman in three volumes. The king was said to have suggested the topic. It seems, therefore, that JP , in turning to the House of Brunswick for a...

The first-named is George I 's rejected queen (accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel...

TCP 's account firmly states that, though she had been out with Mr Grimes (to see a firework display in honour of George I 's return from Hanover), she flatly refused him sex. Over the...

Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield , made an ambitious marriage: to Petronilla Melusina von der Schulenburg , illegitimate daughter of George I .

Here she relates the romantic tale of the marriage of Marie Casimire Clémentine Sobieski (or Clementina Sobieska) to James Edward Stuart , known to British history as the Old Pretender. She draws her material from...

LMWM spent an exciting time in London as a member of the Whig elite now in power under George I .

In the distribution of favours that marked King George 's accession, MCC was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to his daughter-in-law Caroline of Anspach , now Princess of Wales.