King George I

Standard Name: George I, King

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Mary, Countess Cowper
This document succeeded in its aim: George I favoured the Whigs throughout his reign, although his naturally autocratic tendencies might well have inclined him more towards the Tories.
Health Mary Lamb
Another followed an upsetting review of Charles's Specimens in the Quarterly in February 1812, another on her completing her own On Needle-Work in December 1814-February 1815, and another, unusually, only six months later.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking.
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Family and Intimate relationships Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield
Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield , made an ambitious marriage: to Petronilla Melusina von der Schulenburg , illegitimate daughter of George I .
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press.
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Delany
Her uncle George Granville, Lord Lansdowne , was a statesman under Queen Anne , a distinguished amateur poet, and a friend of Alexander Pope . To MD 's parents Lansdowne was the head of the...
Family and Intimate relationships Clara Reeve
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.
Trainer, James, and Clara Reeve. “Introduction”. The Old English Baron, Oxford University Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships Catharine Trotter
He was a curate, until he refused to take the oath of loyalty to George I on his accession.
Wilson, Adrian. “The Politics of Medical Improvement in Early Hanoverian London”. The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century, edited by Andrew Cunningham and Roger French, Cambridge University Press, pp. 4-39.
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He was then reduced to working as a Latin teacher until eleven years later he...
Cultural formation William Law
He became a Church of England clergyman, but after the accession of George I he refused to take the oath of allegiance (since he was a Jacobite). This made him a Nonjuror, ineligible for positions...

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