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unusual facts about British Tory Party



Moll Flanders

His political work was tapering off at this point, due to the fall of both Whig and Tory party leaders with whom he had been associated; Robert Walpole was beginning his rise, and Defoe was never fully at home with the Walpole group.

Oxfordshire Election 1754

The candidates in 1754 were two Tories, Sir James Dashwood (who was standing for re-election) and The Viscount Wenman; and two Whigs, Viscount Parker (heir to the Earl of Macclesfield) and Sir Edward Turner.

Sir Charles Mordaunt, 6th Baronet

Sir Charles Mordaunt, 6th Baronet (1697? – 11 March 1778), of Walton d'Eiville in Warwickshire, was an English landowner and Tory Member of Parliament (MP).

Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby

He was one of the managers of Henry Sacheverell's trial, and, like most of the prominent whigs, he lost his seat in parliament as a result of the ensuing tory reaction.


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